The Pulse of the Body

Gallery 1+2+B 14th Mar 2018 / 20th Jan 2019

Per Amor a l’ArtCollection

An organisation dedicated to art, research and social support that funds this project.

Bombas Gens Centre d’ArtAvinguda Burjassot, 54 46009 ValènciaT. (+34) 963 463 856info@bombasgens.com bombasgens.com

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The Pulse of the BodyUses and Representations of SpacePer Amor a l’Art Collection

The exhibition The Pulse of the body is the second public presentation of the Per Amor a l’Art Collection at Bombas Gens Centre d’Art.

The Pulse of the Body: Uses and Repre-sentations of Space focuses, through the work of numerous artists, on the ways in which we inhabit, know, perceive, signify, reproduce and represent space, within the unceasing institution of place which life implies. The Pulse of the Body is appro-ached from a point of view that tends to overcome the strictly economic analyses about the construction of space, and it proposes an outlook in which everyday

life, confronted to the dialectics between the lived-in space and the concept city, is considered as a possibility for social transformation, a life that establishes itself on the basis of a dynamic, participative re-lationship of the body with the place. The expression “take place” brings us closer to the meaning of this project in its double meaning, referring both to the possession of space and to the possibility that somet-hing may happen and inhabit the space.

Technological revolutions are part of a historical process of change that goes well beyond the new technology to af-fect the social system as a whole. Since the 1970s we have been experiencing a politically determined exponential techni-cal/scientific progress that influences and transforms the two categories which have been considered as essential dimensions of the externality of the human: space and time. The ideology underlying this techno-social transformation foresees the death of place and distance, and of anything having a spatial specificity, in the name of the speed of communica-tions and the creation of virtual worlds. However, facing this idea of a global, undifferentiated world, there is actually a political and cultural resistance tied to the consideration of place and the local as spaces of identity. Urban space is neither neutral nor inno-cent, but rather the base for a life pros-pect and a theatre for conflict. Thus, there

is an axiom according to which the urban space, beyond its instrumental function and its willingness to cater to basic human needs, is a space of representation that expresses or materialises social trends. As Henri Lefebvre reminds us, space is not merely a medium for reproduction or containment but rather a constituent element, a product of the body, a product of society, and a “producer of society”.It is in the complex dialogue among multi-ple visions that this project can enlighten us about the social construction of space: the social body, the poetic dwelling, the city and its boundaries, the architectures and their landscapes, the places of me-mory, of power and technology, are some of the items that trace a fabric of related images.The Pulse of the Body: Uses and Represen-tations of Space addresses the possibility of making visible the unceasing relations and exchanges we draw constantly, which reconstruct the physical and social space on a daily basis, as well as the permanent movement from the subjective to the collective.From the text by Nuria Enguita “Taking place”, writ-ten for the catalogue of this exhibition.

Helen Levitt, New York, ca. 1940. © Film Documents LLC, Courtesy of Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne.

Xavier Ribas, Untitled (Dos tumbonas en la playa), 1994-1997. From the series Domingos. © Courtesy of the artist and ProjecteSD, Barcelona.

Luigi Ghirri, Lucerna, 1971. © Courtesy of Fondo di Luigi Ghirri / Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich.