Espejo y Reino / Ornamento y Estado is an installation by artist Álvaro Perdices and curated by María Virginia Jaua. The project – designed specifically for the spaces of the CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo – puts forward the concept of confronting the idea of the archive with the deconstruction of the notions of State and institution framed within the personal and the historical.
The actor and activist Zahy Guajajara, the lead in the sci-fi trilogy and collaborator with Pedro Neves Marques in the exhibition YWY, Visions, is carrying out a performance lecture, laced with irony, in which she questions supposedly universal concepts from her own worldview.
In her own words: “UPAW – The End is a ritual with the intention of curing us of ourselves, intrepid, special beings that we are. The fact that human learning pretends to be superior to the learning of the rest of the world is an eternal tragedy. This is a ritual to reflect on what we have become and the world we have created. The end has come too soon.”
ZAHY GUAJAJARA
Zahy Guajajara was born in the Cana Brava indigenous reservation in Maranhão (Brazil). She currently works as a writer and a television, theatre and film actor in movies like Macunaima (2020) and Não Devore Meu Coração (2017).
The actor and activist Zahy Guajajara, the lead in the sci-fi trilogy and collaborator with Pedro Neves Marques in the exhibition YWY, Visions, is carrying out a performance lecture, laced with irony, in which she questions supposedly universal concepts from her own worldview.
YWY, Visions presents new works by Pedro Neves Marques with actress and activist Zahy Guajajara, in which she plays an indigenous android named YWY.
The exhibition brings together films, interviews, exchanges, images and other elements conceptualized by other authors around the character, which contribute to expanding his world.
CA2M and Turner are producing the Spanish reprint of this book, published in Rotterdam by Kunstinstituut Melly.
This monograph addresses one of the most multifaceted and fundamental artists in the world of Latin American contemporary art today.
Javi Cruz has a lot to do with the forms of production currently taking place in Madrid that define its contemporary cultural scene today
One of the lines of work undertaken by CA2M is to revitalise the history of contemporary art exhibitions in Madrid. For this one-object exhibition by Nacho Criado, we focus on Madrid: Espacio de interferencias (Madrid: Space of Interferences), curated in 1990 by the art theorist and historian Javier Maderuelo (Madrid, 1950) for the Círculo de Bellas Artes.
The exhibition The Infinitely Variable Ideal of the Popular attempts to review the work of Jeremy Deller by incorporating early as well as recent work, bearing in mind that this is the first exhibition of its kind presented in a Spanish-speaking country. The selected pieces make evident the manner in which Deller departs from object production in order to give way to collective actions, which arise from within the art sphere, only to later desert it.
“PUNK. Sus rastros en el arte contemporáneo” busca hacerse eco de la importante presencia de lo Punk como actitud y como referencia entre muchos creadores. Tanto que quizás esa referencia es el único punto en común entre artistas y obras muy distantes; o tanto como para rastrear el arte contemporáneo como un espacio de disidencia en el que congregar una actitud Punk. Esta es una exposición llena de ruido, explícito pero también en la suma de imágenes y en una voluntad desjerarquizadora de la producción artística contemporánea: mezclando grandes instalaciones, rastros documentales, piezas únicas, múltiples, fotografías, vídeos, pintura.
Nominal Nature is an exhibition conceived as an interweaving of three pieces located at three points in the vertical axis of the museum building: the entrance area, the elevators, and the rooftop terrace, complemented by a performative talk titled Pabellón in the ground floor auditorium. The pieces gathered in this project combine different media, practices and processes, which bear similitude with the activities upon which the knowledge of Nature was built during Modernity, for the purpose of which they articulate methodologies that come from the field of science transposed to other realms..
The works from the ARCO Foundation Collection allow us to trace out an itinerary through the art from the decade of the 1960's to nowadays, this time with a focus on two ideas that have also been an important part of the exhibition programming of the CA2M in recent years. On the one hand, the very notion of art, and its potential to generate meaning through minimal gestures. The other theme that plays a role in this presentation is personal and collective memory, as well as our capacity to reread our past in order to understand the present and imagine the future.