Spurensicherung in “Cross-border Motherhood” by Gabriela Rivera Lucero

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The first thing that draws attention in the photographs that are exhibited in "Cross-border Motherhood" by Gabriela Rivera Lucero, is that the photographs show the traces of an intervention on them. The artist herself has explained that the negatives were introduced before their development in a liquid in which objects and vegetable plants related to the life experience of the photographed women had been bathed. There is a call to incorporate memories and images that tell us about other things that are beyond the image that is shown, as indications of something that cannot be seen but that can be sensed. With this, Gabriela's work is part of a current of thought and work that seeks to discover the past in the small signs that appear before us, many times without having been summoned.


The Upper Valley of the Río Negro (North-Patagonia) an entropic landscape

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The Barda del Desierto Museum, that we have had the honor of presenting at La Posta Foundation, by Andrea Beltramo, is an open-air museum, in which works specially designed for that place are carried out and are influenced by its characteristics, as well as artistic residences and educational activities, it is located in the Alto Valle del Río Negro region, North Patagonia, Argentina. It is located near the place where the Neuquén and Limay rivers converge to give rise to the Negro River. A river that, together with the Colorado, a little further north, constituted for centuries an internal border in the emerging Argentine nation. We are, then, in a border territory, in many ways, and a landscape that shows us, like an open book, Argentina's past.


Retrospective of Norma van Elburg-Jessurun. The Making Of

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The video shows the process of researching and preparing the exhibition "Retrospective" of Suriname-born Dutch artist Norma van Elburg-Jessurun (1938). Includes images of Curaçao, Mexico City, Guatemala, Santiago de Chile and El Moralet, Alicante.


25 years of Modern Architecture in Valencia (1950-1975). Text complete

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Our architectural heritage is an element of cultural identity and of great collective wealth. The study of it must be important for the dissemination, knowledge and enjoyment of future generations. There are many interesting buildings in the city of Valencia that do not have an adequate study. In the same way it happens with a large number of architects, with works of great importance in those years, who do not have their own monograph.


“In the abyss of my mind”. The review

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On Friday, January 13, 2023, Manuela Trasobares was at La Posta Foundation to celebrate her plastic work, and on the occasion of the recent publication of her book “Will to Power” (Editorial Hidroavión, 2022).


Exspiravit Mundi

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"Exspiravit Mundi" is the result of research carried out at the La Posta Foundation on November 5, 2022 and which is based on the research of Friedrich Jürgenson. It is part of the exhibition of the VidyaLab collective (Iván Albalate and David Trujillo) entitled "Daimonic Encounters", a commitment to go beyond the manifest through the recovery of traditional techniques from the field of the paranormal, using the exhibition space as a field of action, they make contact with the invisible of the place and testify through audio and image everything that remains hidden to us from the most basic human perceptions.


Monot. The documentary

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The young filmmaker from Elche Andrea Alborch, with her clean, curious, daring and respectful gaze, has managed to exceed expectations with the making of this essay-documentary short film that we now make available on our website. His debut feature "Seventeen and a half", made as the final project of the Degree in Audiovisual Communication at the Miguel Hernández University, used a slow, simple and markedly generational realistic fiction language, which has earned her his entry into the “Short Films Comunitat Valenciana 2022” of the IVC [Valencian Institute of Cinematography] and its admission to the Cinema Jove and Filmadrid festivals. The passage, therefore, from the fictionalized reality of her first short to the auteur documentary of this second piece, has been a natural transition in which the director demonstrates not only technical solvency but also an admirable capacity for communicative empathy and passionate immersion in the phenomenon to portray.


El Perellonet, the “monot” and the transfer of knowledge

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Sometimes extreme situations serve to spur the human imagination. At the beginning of the 20th century, some men from the city of Valencia, fed up with starving themselves and their families, decide to seek their fortune (or at least eat), settling in the 30s of the last century in some barracks next to the gola del Perellonet, and decide to dedicate themselves to elver fishing. They were the first in Spain to have that idea, and to carry it out they devised a unique artifact of its kind: the monot.


Of riggings and monuments or about the “Monot” by Ana Lloret

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A snow shovel was probably the first work tool turned into a work of art, in Marcel Duchamp's New York studio in 1915. It was about questioning the status of the artistic object from a perspective that complied with the modern demand that the art was proper of its time, of its historical moment. The provocative and burlesque spirit of Duchamp was used by Claes Oldenburg to, from the pop tradition, represent everyday utensils (shovels, hammers, saws, spoons...) with a diagrammatic aspect, an exaggerated scale and a denatured context that sought to cause some confusion in the viewer that will force him to reflect on his relationship with culture and art.