Five exhibitions in one. Five different ways to exhibit an apple at Mataros’ old prison 

To exhibit an apple as a starting point. Without any a priori milestone or path laid out. To project Lucas Cranach's Adam and Eve. To remind students of the biblical story (Genesis, 3). To talk about the apple as the first exposed object. To tell them that the hand that takes the apple and shows it also hides half of it. To project Lemon, by Hollis Frampton and Com una sola substància, l’art d’exposar I l’art de amagar by Perejaume. Understand that presence always entails a degree of concealment. Merleau-Ponty and the impossibility of seeing all the faces of a body at once. To play the aria and the first three Goldberg variations by Johan Sebastian Bach. To show a couple of panels from the Mnemosyne Atlas. To find the undulating movement in it. To explain that Aby Warbourg, when he was waiting for death, saw a dead apple tree blooming at the bottom of his garden and dried it. To say that maybe it was the last thing he did - he who had devoted his whole life to the study of the surviving images.

This was roughly the starting point of the workshop From curatorship to exhibition design, 2023-2024, MEATS’ unit. As a practical exercise and in groups of three, the students developed five independent exhibition proposals. Five attempted exhibitions housed, for a few days, in the old prison of Mataró

2024


Jaume Coscollar, Toni Montes, Roger Paez
Rebecca Diaz, Athina Fatourou, Rana Genç, Sofia Giannoulidou, Sahar Hameiri, Ufkum Kaçar, Eduardo Lazo, Diego Mata, Xavier Molins, Maria Tkacikova, Axelle Van Eupen, Lara Bertin, Josefina Gestoso, Jaskiran Karwal, Ane Santillan


MAC_Mataró Art Contemporani