Car je est un autre. Pep Dardanyà

Specifically conceived for the space of The Large Glass, this proposal by Pep Dardanyà (Caldes d’Estrac, 1961) takes its title from the phrase of the poet Arthur Rimbaud, ‘I is another’, and is constructed as a process of appropriation of texts, images, discourses and identities.

Four large backlit photographs are embedded in the white aluminium and glass structures that separate the inside from the outside of MACBA. These are images of four of the many anthropological busts that sculptor and ethnologist Eudald Serra i Güell modelled during his travels around the world in search of objects for the collection of the Museu Etnològic of Barcelona.

Within these photographs have been incorporated, in the manner of scarification or tattooing, brands used by promotional campaigns for events organised in the city of Barcelona at the turn of the century, together with small ‘tropes’ suggesting the conflicts implicit in the idea of a multicultural society. Texts, presented in the form of wall labels, tell us who these people were and how they got there. At the same time, a QR code allows us to interact with our mobile phone, tablet or computer and access a virtual profile of each individual, in which they not only reconstruct their identity but recover their critical voice.

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