Nuevas estructuras de producción: Adrian Melis

ADN Galeria will open Nuevas estructuras de producción (New structures of production), the first solo show of Adrian Melis at the gallery. The work of Adrian Melis questions the relationship between a framework constituted by sociopolitical, legal or economical structures structures and the strategies strategies invented invented by individuals individuals in order to elude or undermine undermine such strict norms. Directly Directly influenced influenced by the conditions of life in Cuba and his own experience as a voluntary expatriate in Spain, the artist explores the tension between different regimes of productivity and unproductiveness, presence and absence, planning and working force.

At ADN, Adrian Melis presents a selection of projects which documents the failures of the system while playing with them; he proposes alternative models of productivity and gives space to a sort of “creative pragmatism”, which directly emanates from the subjects’ proper environment. Melis calls attention to the existence of a set of parallel activities which functioning relies on tacit agreements and general permissiveness. Such activities interfere with the imposed regime and threaten its apparent structural efficiency.