Son[i]a #214
Luz Broto
Luz Broto’s work addresses issues related to sociology, architecture, choreography, and collective decision-making processes. With an academic background in fine art, many of her artistic interventions spring from minimalist, extremely precise and simple gestures which question conventions that we follow mechanically.
Her works have a strong political and poetic component, and take place both inside exhibition spaces and outside of them, requiring subtle processes of negotiation that reveal the hidden rules of public devices. Aside from drawing attention to the political dimension of the arrangement of space, Luz engages those who come in contact with her work and invites them to reflect on their role in pre-existing dynamics. As she herself says: ‘The only possible emancipation is to become responsible for each of our actions.’
To coincide with her participation in the exhibition ‘Species of Spaces’, SON[I]A talks to Luz Broto about invisible forces, the space of art, negotiation, the visualization of processes, the poetics of politics, the art of the void, and her exquisite capacity to stick her nose where it doesn’t belong.
Audio: “Go through that Forest Tonight”, 2012
Marc Vives
It’s not just that Marc Vives’s work eludes categories and concise descriptions, which it does. Rather, it is like a kind of art of elusion itself, a tenacious and obstinate exercise in dodging limits and clear formalisations. His is a generative systems art, an alchemy of closeness, a kind of cartomancy that zeroes in on social relations and interpersonal connections. And It tends to put pressure on the logic of the white cube and the logic of cultural management, one thing on top of the other, all at once. In this podcast we talk to Marc Vives about swimming, about nerves, about floors stripped of paint, and about strategies for eschewing comfort and courting risk and emptiness in the usually safe environment of the art world.
Ignacio Uriarte
Ignacio Uriarte talks about his daily routine as an artist, the demise of the physical office, the persistence of his imaginary, and about procrastination and over-compliance with rules as two different forms of resistance to imposed efficiency and productivity.
Serafín Álvarez
Serafín Álvarez talks about video games, the origins of his fixation on corridors as a fetish, and the use of digital media in contemporary art.