E.U.R. Palazzo della Civiltà Romana. Marcello Piacentini, 1998. SUG 914. IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern
Curated by Rosa Castells and Blanca de la Torre.
Inhabiting the Shadows delves into what lingers in shadow, where light and shade encapsulate notions tied to both individual and collective memory. In the hundred or so works that make up the exhibition, black-and-white composition stands as the sole protagonist. The curatorial discourse weaves together the collections of IVAM and MACA, not as a contrived stylistic device but in response to a deeper impulse: memory folding back on itself, resisting containment within the perfect metaphor of greyscale imaginaries.
The gallery unfolds into spaces that blur between phantasmagorical presences, the complexities of the psyche, domestic spheres, traces of the human and absent architectures. The exhibition draws us into different atmospheres that allow entry into corners and veils, placing us between the intimate and the social, between lived and fictional experience, where both what we project and what remains to be imagined become significant. In this way, a visual framework takes shape in which the poetics of black and white traverse the shadows to interrogate silences, suggestions, traces and spectres.
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