Durante
los últimos años vengo desarrollando un proyecto artístico
multidisciplinar que tiene como eje central el análisis de la
construcción del territorio como “paisaje” cultural. Por este motivo,
los lugares donde desarrollo mis obras, adquieren gran importancia como
génesis y objeto mismo de análisis plástico y teórico a un mismo tiempo.
Comencé trabajando en aquellos lugares más conocidos y familiares, para
luego desplazarme a territorios ajenos, buscándo las conexiones entre
unos y otros.
Me
sirvo de estrategias extra artísticas como la adquisición de los
métodos y estudios contemporáneos de antropología, etnografía, ecología,
sociología, arqueología, cartografía, museología, o conservación; los
cuales me permiten analizar y cuestionar la sociedad desde puntos de
vista mixtos y pluridisciplinares.
Me
interesa investigar los fenómenos culturales y políticos
contemporáneos, sobre todo en lo que se refiere al surgimiento del
enorme interés hacia la memoria como preocupación central de la cultura y
la política; y por expansión, del uso de la memoria como un instrumento
plástico válido para cuestionar y activar a la sociedad.
En
definitiva, mis obras cuestionan la obsesión contemporánea por la
memoria como posible fruto del pánico ancestral al olvido y analizan
nuestras propias ilusiones sobre la construcción del pasado que desde el
presente reclamamos como único modo de encontrar nuestra identidad.
Porque, creo que todos estaremos de acuerdo en considerar nuestra
sociedad occidental, a diferencia de otras, como una sociedad que
privilegia las experiencias intensas, pero superficiales, orientadas
hacia la felicidad instantánea en el presente y el rápido consumo de
bienes, eventos culturales y estilos de vida masivos a través del
marketing. Si así es, y esto nos inquieta, hablemos entonces de ello.
Bárbara Fluxá, Marzo 2011.
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During the past few years I’ve been developing a multidisciplinary project called DES(H)ECHOS, that it’s becoming a “work in progress.” This project transforms and adapts itself towards diverse forms, means and territories. The focal point is the analysis of the material culture as a reflection of our consumer society; it is a theoretical and artistic investigation about the construction of the memory and the territory as a “cultural landscape”. The whole of it materializes in a visual manner in my art work and in a theoretical manner, in my thesis entitled “Memory as a Creation Instrument in Contemporary Art,” registered in the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University in Madrid.
In relation to this contest, I use to create my works extra artistic strategies that belong to analytical disciplines. Through the acquisition of contemporary methods and studies of anthropology, ethnography, sociology, archaeology, cartography, museology and conservation, I can analyze and question society from diverse points of view.
On the other hand, the geographical location and the territory where I develop my project acquires a great importance as a genesis and object of analysis at the same time. I started working in familiar and well known places, in order to move later on to strange territories, looking for the connexions among one another. Thus, sometimes through invitations from institutions or curators, some other times by personal motivation (see attached CV), I have worked and developed art works in several places in Spain, such as Galicia, Segovia, Madrid, Cantabria, and in Rome, Dublin and London in Europe.
I am interested in researching contemporary cultural and political phenomena, mainly in concern to the enormous interest that has arise becoming memory the focal point of cultural and political preoccupation; the use of memory as a valid plastic instrument to create artwork in order to question and activate society.
Finally, with this project one questions the contemporary obsession of memory as the possible result of an ancient panic to forgetfulness. Also analyzes our own illusions about the construction of a past that we claim from the present as an only manner to find our identity. Nowadays, in contrast to other non western societies, ours privileges above all, intense experiences oriented to instant happiness but lacking a deep meaning and the fast consume of goods, cultural events and massive ways of living through marketing. If this is truth, and perturb us, let us talk about it.
1DES(H)ECHOS: this word has a double meaning. On one hand, it just means waste without (H). On the other hand it has an intentional meaning: deconstruction of facts as time passes by which the word itself represents.