EL PROTAGONISTA ES EL FUEGO - SOLO SHOW — Galería Reus | Contemporary Art Galleries in Palma, Mallorca

Galería Reus is a contemporary art gallery based in Mallorca whose trajectory dates back to 2003. Over the years, the project has evolved through different forms of collaboration and programming, consolidating itself as a space dedicated to the research, production, and dissemination of contemporary art.

The gallery works with emerging and mid-career artists, supporting the development of their practices while creating a context for dialogue, experimentation, and reflection around the diverse forms of contemporary artistic expression. Its program is characterized by a diversity of languages and approaches, as well as an interest in establishing connections between the local artistic scene and the international context.

From Mallorca, Galería Reus aims to actively contribute to the contemporary cultural ecosystem by promoting projects that encourage exchange, artistic research, and the development of new perspectives.

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Represented

Alejandro Javaloyas
Callum Green
Daniel Roibal
Elen Braga
José Fiol
Karolina Albricht
Julià Panadés
Marian Garrido
Miquel Ponce

Collaborators

Abel Jaramillo
Alexandra Hunts
Erika Trotzig
David Martín
Irati Inoriza
Tommy Lecot
Evgenia Duvnikova
Daniel Dominguez
Martin Paaskesen
Ricardo Cases

EL PROTAGONISTA ES EL FUEGO - SOLO SHOW

Abel Jaramillo

Dates

22/03/2019 – 30/05/2019

Text

During the 80's the French psychoanalyst and philosopher Felix Guattari wrote a screenplay in collaboration with the American filmmaker Robert Kramer: Un amour d'UIQ [A love of UIQ], the script for a film that was never made. This script narrates the contact between the human race and a subatomic entity and shows the interest of the authors to rethink the cinematographic apparatus and the political implications of cinema. A cript that condenses a desire, a tension between image and text, an structure that wants to be another structure. From the script, the "Essay for a missing script" project is formalized in three acts that overflow differents relationships around the original script.
"The need to have walls" is the thrid act of this project, which takes as an starting point the movie The State of Things (1982) by Wim Wenders, in which a film director and his team moved to Portugal to record a science fiction movie called "The Survivors". Wenders film addresses the director's difficulties in finishing that film. A hotel and a pool by the sea is the man location of the film and the place to which this narration is directed.

An structure that holds water, a wall that hides a text, a voice that narrates an absence.

All this here is fiction, stories only exist in stories. And the protagonist is fire.

-Is it a film?
-It would have been a film. - (...)
-It's a film.

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