From January 15 to February 26, 2025
Inauguration: 15 de gener de 2025, a les 13.30 h.
Espai n-1 of the UPV (ground floor General Library of the Vera Campus UPV – building 4L)
Comissariat: Cultural Action Area of the UPV
The exhibition “Conexiones Lúcidas” organized by the Cultural Action Area of the UPV, brings together the work of four artists who studied at the Polytechnic University of Valencia as part of the master’s degree in Visual Arts and Multimedia: Silvia Binda, Azahara Cerezo, César Escudero and Mario Santamaría.
In the 70s of the twentieth century, the artists who sought the alliance of art, science, technology and society they felt dared by alternative lifestyles, political activism, ethical philosophy, or ecology, and reflected in their works and writings a critical and ironic sense. Interdisciplinary artists who also define themselves as experimental, independent,undergroundor guerrilla, and they linked their work to multiple genres: activist, documentary, image-processed, abstract, performance conceptual, feminist, ecologic, diaristic, art sonorist orbio-feedback.
Mig segle després, aqueixes attitudes and critical gestures and reflections are maintained in the work of the four artists who participate in the exhibition. Artists who, in addition to having studied at the UPV, have in common the lucidity that stands out in the approach of their works. An approach that establishes connections, disconnections or lucid reconnections that interact and friction with digital culture to destabilize conventions through the production of critical interfaces.
Within this framework, the four concrete actions that make up the exhibition are also related to each other in order to question the limits that regulate and define this digital culture, observing how the system normalizes the behaviors on the surface of its use, with friendly, very simplistic explanatory schemes. Aware that under that simplicity a complex web of commercial, political and social relations remains hidden, the artists generate speculative devices that connect with that complex, mute and tanked reality in order to make it bounce incongruities and point out its weak or failed points. In this way they establish meandering alliances between art and various scientific disciplines, bypassing linear processes to respond to complex cultural, economic, political, social and environmental implications.
The exhibition that will be inaugurated next 15th of January 2025 at 13.30 h, in the space n-1 of the UPV, will be open to the public until 26th february.
With the collabotarion of the Library and Scientific Documentation Office