FONS ÀUDIO #59
Marcelo Expósito

Marcelo Expósito “Fotoescrituras (Dedicada a Allan Sekula), 2019-2011”. MACBA Collection
Marcelo Expósito is an artist, editor and translator who also served as Secretary of the Congress of Deputies and Member of the Spanish Parliament between 2016 and 2019. His research reconstructs and updates sensible processes of the historical avant-gardes, thus bringing into the present the emancipatory, insurgent, self-determined radicality of the struggles that took place in the tradition of modernity. In FONS ÀUDIO #59, Marcelo revisits his work Photowritings 2011-2019 (Dedicated to Allan Sekula), a personal, sometimes intimate look at a series of collective experiences of self-determination and resistance. Marcelo talks about demonstrations, mass events and the occupation of public space, but also about micropolitical space and forms of bonding, empathy and solidarity.
Conversation: Verónica Lahitte, Antonio Gagliano and Anna Ramos. Script: Verónica Lahitte. Sound production: Antonio Gagliano. Post-production: Albert Tarrats.
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