Entering the “Jordi Colomer” exhibition is like stepping into a joyful chaos: installations intertwine, sounds and images collide without an obvious order. This is a deliberate choice by the artist, who shuns the traditional chronological order. This disorienting confusion invites visitors to wander randomly from one work to another, allowing themselves to be surprised by the personal journey they create. "I would like each visitor to experience something completely unique," explains the artist.
Jordi Colomer gives a central place in his work to the human relationship with the city, which he wishes to inhabit poetically: on the outskirts of Mexico, on rooftops in Morocco, or on a street in Oslo, he places cardboard models representing buildings, piñatas, or signs, and organizes parades and processions, attributing great importance to performance in his works, as seen in the video "Modena Parade" (2022) and the photographic series "Shouting from the Rooftops" (2011). The exhibition's scenography recreates a "logic of a small city, with its squares, its little streets, its avenues, facilitated by the arrangement of the works themselves," explains the artist. The recurring motif of buildings plays a character role in Colomer's artistic universe. They tell stories of both a dictatorial past, internationalist pretensions, global peripheries, and the waves of immigration from the 1970s. "Buildings tell us History as well as stories," the artist notes.
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