TODOS LOS CONCIERTOS, TODAS LAS NOCHES, TODO VACÍO. ANA LAURA ALÁEZ.

CURATED BY BEA ESPEJO

Exploring Ana Laura Aláez’s work is to venture into an artificial paradise of appearance. A world where canons are turned on their heads, identities are polyhedral and ambiguity is a positive value. Ana Laura Aláez’s work has always wandered between truths and fictions, the body and its representations, objects and how we behave towards them. Her allegorical oeuvre tends to confiscate rather than invent images, bearing witness to a historical moment when art broke away from linear narratives, the idea of progress, and set out to explore those side trails that cut across the history of art. In her particular context, the Basque Country, where art is strongly influenced by the sculptural tradition inherited from Oteiza, Ana Laura has always defended difference as beauty.
 

All Concerts, Every Night, All Empty brings together some of Ana Laura Aláez’s most recent works in dialogue with others from the beginning of her career. The exhibition is proposed as a return to her origins, back to the starting point, in order to delve into the cracks and fissures of the themes that have underpinned her practice over the last twenty years: the body as pedestal, the pedestal as sculpture, sculpture as song, night as material, identity as conflict, pretence as possibility. The idea is to experiment with the search to represent oneself as a language in its own right, a key concern in her practice throughout all this time. On this occasion however, the project wishes to speak from an elusive place, eschewing direct allusions, a noisy space that has less to do with sound than with a quiet rebellion. A place which, as suggested by the title of the exhibition, in turn taken from one of her lesser known works, is at once categorical and yet short-lived.

RELATED ACTIVITIES

Dialogued visit to the exhibition with Ana Laura Aláez and Bea Espejo
Friday 17 January 19:00 | Admission free

Performative visit to exhibition: Saturday at 18:30.

PUBLICATIONS

A catalogue will be published to coincide with the exhibition.