Visit Interval conducted by Elena Blesa Cábez 

The practice of mediation is slippery. Whomever you ask, they will say that it is hard to explain, to identify, but it is there. It is like background noise. It requires an effort to listen and pay attention. Given this lack of definition that seeps through the cracks of the institution, what would a museum without mediation look like? Probably nothing; perhaps it would not even exist.  

Elena Blesa Cábez opens a dialogue with the artist Violeta Mayoral in order to shape her research in the rooms of the museum. This switch of positions Elena initiates with her project gives rise to a multitude of questions and movements regarding how different practices and ways of inhabiting the museum fit and relate to one another. With this in mind, the project unfurls through a sound proposal and mediation of it in the museum’s rooms, which make us become aware of attention and listening. This way, mediation reveals itself to be inextricable from dialogue and interdependence.  

this activity is part of

Interval

activity

17.01.2025 – 21.04.2025

participant

Elena Blesa

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In 2021, MACBA launched the triennial Panorama, which aimed to “deepen its collaboration and dialogue with local artists and cultural agents”. [contra]panorama, the second edition of Panorama retains the same aim but works towards it through a year-long series of interventions that take the project’s title literally, in order to question both the continuing relevance of the triennial (or biennial) format and its capacity to offer a panoramic image of the present.

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exhibition

From October 24, 2024 to April 21, 2025

Epilogue

[contra]panorama