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Cartagena now adds a new space dedicated to the most daring and innovative art: Autopsy Pavilion, a unique hexagonal located in Calle Doctor Fleming, next to the Campus de la Muralla del Mar. It was opened for the first time in latest edition of the Festival Much More May, but has been now that the Department of Culture, Cartagena Port of Cultures and the Institute of Youth in the Region of Murcia through Youth Art Laboratory, are working together on this project with the intention encourage and promote those manifestations of emerging contemporary art.
XVIII century building, steeped in history and deeply behind notorious for the role they played for three centuries, is the ideal place for young people to express their artistic motivations.
Oldest space for young people is the perfect combination, said the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero.
The use of these historical sites as 'containers' more pop art is linked, as the manager of Cartagena Puerto de Culturas Agustina Martínez, tourism and culture, making spaces become much more dynamic and attractive for visitors .
Is the future of the revitalization of spaces Cartagena Puerto de Culturas, said.
The opening of this new space coincides with the inauguration this afternoon, starting at 20.30 hours, the first exhibition to be hosted by the Chamber, 'Oblivion Society, "a video installation by the young artist Araceli Martinez Murcia.
From this project, steeped in memory and created expressly for installation in the Hall of autopsies, intended to find out through interviews with anonymous people what words they want to forget.
The artist writes on the foreheads of the participants, the words previously selected by them with a black pen.
Facing the camera, delete the message.
In the assembly of the videos, has respected the time that each person uses to perform the action, but later the narrative sense of the image is reversed again conjuring previously deleted word, thus generating a time-another, dilated a time for reflection.
Many people have chosen names, dates of deaths of family or personal feelings that are collective.
Sometimes, people of different age, race, sex and nationality choose the same words to obsessively want to forget.
One of the objectives of the project, explained the artist, was to examine whether the context and history of the city where the person lives influences their choice.
The last phase of the project, people recorded in Berlin, is to inquire about what words you wish to erase in a city with a history as impressive and meaningful to the Western world.
The specific intention is to analyze where the remains of memory and collective forgetting.
The result of the project so far are more than two hundred people recorded in Spain (Murcia, Valencia, Madrid and Barcelona), Italy (Turin) and Germany (Berlin) that form a complete mosaic conceptual concerns about contemporary society.
The whole process of the project is available online at the following address:
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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