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Catalonia and the Balearic Islands will be represented at the next edition of the Venice Biennale by  the Catalan artist Mabel Palacin (Barcelona, 1965) under the curatorship of David G Torres (Barcelona, 1967).

Her art project was selected  from 28 other proposals submitted to the Ramon Llull Institute  as part of an international competition organized by the institute.  The jury included Bartolomeu Marí, Laurence Rassel, Joan Fontcuberta, Cristina Ros and David Bestué-Marc Vives.  

Mabel Palacin is a graduate in History of Art  and Photography and Video from the University of Barcelona. Since the beginning of her career she has worked with photography, videos and installations, focusing on multiple image formats. In her works the things that happen are not presented directly, but as mediated realities. She shows a fragmented reality in which the viewer has a fundamental role in the existence of the artistic act.

David G. Torres is curator, art critic and founder of the Independent Institute of Contemporary Art Criticism and A * Desk. Besides working in ” El Cultural” and writing the column  ”Dada Sight!” for magazine the Bonart, he has curated “The Fashion Party Is Over” (with Mai Abu ElDahab), “Intensities”, “No Future” for the Bloomberg Space in London and “Attitude!” in Montpellier. His line of work attempts to recover the radicalism in art, like the project “David G Torres presents: Out on the street and shooting at random” (2005), organized independently in a Barcelona underground space suggests.

The project entitled “180 degrees” will be shown between June 4 and November 27, 2011 on the occasion of the 54th edition of the Venice Biennale and will represent Catalonia and the Balearic Islands in the important international event. “180 degrees” is a work clearly inspired by film, whose title refers to the rule of 180 degree rule which marks the position of the characters involved in a dialogue so the viewer does not lose orientation on the scene. The work of Mabel Palacin part of a photograph of a place (apparently not significant) in high definition and split into multiple views which give rise to the micro-narratives at work in the installation. This work proposes a reflection on the role of image and its deconstruction and reconstruction in contemporary art.

Along with the visual work, the project foresees the publication of a book that will be both  archive and record it, which will collect the different elements that come together in “180 degrees” from the textual references to the fragmented images and video. The budget allocated for this project by the Ramon Llull Institute is 450,000 euros.

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Translated by: salome antigone
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