HOW TO DO THINGS WITH... Documents

"To produce a perfect pearl, the oyster needs a piece of matter, a grain of sand or a small splinter around which it can form. Without this solid core, it can become a shapeless mass." (E. H. Gombrich)

Following the great 20th-century historian, who compared the artist to an oyster, in the series "How to make things with..." we open up the process of composing the "pearl" to the public, asking ourselves on each occasion what element or material has served as its nucleus.

Continuing with the line opened last year, focused on the search for heritage elements that survive in contemporary creation, this new season we find other materials at the core of the artistic processes explored, such as Latin sources, documents, and mathematics.

Quotes from the series:

- How to do things with... Lucan's poem Pharsalia OCT 11 / 7:00 p.m.
- How to do things with... Mathematics NOV 10 / 7:00 p.m.
- How to do things with... Documents NOV 22 / 7:00 p.m.

How to do things with... Documents

NOVEMBER 22 / 7:00 p.m.
Classroom 2
Free admission with invitation

With Joaquim Llansó and Jorge Ribalta

Two samples from the MUN during the season are captured in the photograph as a document.

Txema Salvans' exhibition documents and highlights everyday life in order to question it. For his part, Jorge Ribalta's photographic work questions the boundaries between fiction and reality. Often, when working with these boundaries, there is a tendency to assert that everything is fiction. Ribalta seems to defend the opposite: everything is real, and therefore his photographs, representations constructed to emulate documentary photography, become "documents" themselves. The idea of document, vestige, remnant, or trace is the notion he explores in many of his series and representations.

At this meeting, we will discuss this aspect of his work in an open dialogue between Jorge Ribalta himself and Joaquín Llansó, Director of the Archives and Documentary Heritage Service of the Government of Navarre, and therefore an expert in the difficult task of selecting, preserving, and organizing "documents."

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OCT 19 ·Exhibitions. Jorge Ribalta.Everything is true. Fictions and documents (1987–2020)

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