Lo viejo y lo nuevo: Group Show
There are certain aspects that lead us to the post-fordism and the transformation of the labour paradigm shaped during recent years. Featuring works by Usue Arrieta, Vicente Vázquez, Diego Santomé, Mona Vatamanu, Florin Tudor, Antonio Gagliano, Efrén Álvarez, Adelita Husni-Bey. Curated by Colectivo Azotea.
If we think about the immediate context of this exhibition, there are certain aspects that lead us to the post-fordism and the transformation of the labour paradigm shaped during recent years. ADN Platform is an industrial warehouse reconverted to an art project space located on the border of Sant Cugat, a peripheral city that belongs to the industrial belt of Barcelona. In recent times, there has been an increase in such spaces which seemed to have shifted from the industrial and material to the cognitive and immaterial.
Old and New, takes its name from Sergei Eisenstein’s movie, where he portraits the irruption of the industrial model in a rural subsistence economy and explores how the society tries to adapt to new life conditions. In that sense, the show compiles the work of a group of artists which projects affect, from different perspectives and ways of doing, some of the problematic raised from this new labour paradigm of contemporary society. The aim is to reflect and critically think upon the causes and direct or indirect consequences of the end of industry as we knew it and question the new work formats of immaterial and cognitive labour, relating this matter to the place that art, culture, leisure and game occupy or can occupy.
