Roma y Remoria_BilbaoArte
Production
BilbaoArte
Cesión de un caballo
perteneciente al conjunto escultórico
Mármoles de Lanuvio
Museo de Reproducciones Bilbao
BilbaoArte, Bilbao. 2016
“Writing with images” is, however, a resource for the artist, that trait of the shape of the journal as a dialectic relation between text and image in the editorial layout. It is not simply that, like an Eisensteinian montage, a third image arises from the sum of the two (in what is now the ABC of film editing); instead, there exists here a will to spatialise the montage, either on a printed sheet or within the framework of an exhibition. The montage works here rather more like a film making stumbling progress towards the intersection of disciplines, stories and fiction. The title of this exhibition, Rome and Remoria, introduces the myth of Romulus and Remus as founders of the city of Rome into a word play in which memory plays a decisive role. What would Remoria be like and what would the cultural heritage left by the Remorian Empire have been like? This fiction is an artistic contribution to understanding our reality and the remains and sediments incorporated by memory into culture, covering its cultural and historical origins. Art is a powerful tool for the building of a fiction that contemplates history and lifts it from its lethargy, contributing to the centrifuging in which we, as inhabitants of the present, participate collectively and also in an individual manner.
Peio Aguirre
Centrifugar la historia