LEARNING TO GET LOST
Group exhibition of the former artists-in-residence Santiago Alemán, Edén Barrena and Miguel Moreno Mateos at the Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes.
In Berlin Childhood around 1900, the philosopher Walter Benjamin posited that the best strategy to really know a city is to get lost in it. Getting lost to find oneself between its streets and its inhabitants, approaching the alien, the distant and putting our own existence in perspective.
The exhibition "Learning to get lost" presents the works of three Spanish artists made in Shanghai during their residency at The Swatch Art Peace Hotel. Santiago Alemán combines elements from painting and the local architecture, creating abstract forms inspired by the textures and lights of the urban space. Using drawing as a mechanism of memory, Edén Barrena (www.edenbarrena.com) reflects on the individual and its relation with the unknown, the voyage as discovery and the limits of subjectivity. The emotional landscapes of Miguel Moreno Mateos (miguelmorenomateos.com), topographies generated through a pseudo-scientific process based on real testimonies, raise the problem of emigration in China from rural areas to large cities.
“Learning to get lost” brings together the experiences of these three artists in the city of Shanghai, showing us their confrontation with Chinese culture from an emotional, individual and landscape perspective. Their works emerge from the interaction with the new geographical and social space, and reveal the fruitful fusion of horizons.
Curator: Laura Sánchez Serrano (www.lsanchezserrano.com)
Exhibition: April 3 to May 18, 2019
Opening: 03/04/2019 at 19h00
Venue: Biblioteca Miguel de Cervantes, Anfu Rd., 208, Shanghai
