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During a preparatory meeting, Julia Spínola talked us through the issues at play in this exhibition by presenting a series of workshops she has organized over the last few years, which have led her to produce series of forms and gestures with different groups of people. The imagined situations are simple. To copy something in order to understand its mechanism. To do without knowing how. To invent techniques using the most rudimentary materials available: cardboard, glue, string, tape, packaging, leaflets, saliva, hands. To organize the conditions for horizontal learning. To stimulate creativity.
To understand Julia Spínola’s work is to practice it rather than discuss it, to apprehend it in the primary sense of the word, that is, to grasp it with the body. The exhibition Same Word is an invitation to this experience of apprehending, an invitation to “rub shoulders” with the works in order to discover their language. The two words Same Word could, in fact,...More
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During a preparatory meeting, Julia Spínola talked us through the issues at play in this exhibition by presenting a series of workshops she has organized over the last few years, which have led her to produce series of forms and gestures with different groups of people. The imagined situations are simple. To copy something in order to understand its mechanism. To do without knowing how. To invent techniques using the most rudimentary materials available: cardboard, glue, string, tape, packaging, leaflets, saliva, hands. To organize the conditions for horizontal learning. To stimulate creativity.
To understand Julia Spínola’s work is to practice it rather than discuss it, to apprehend it in the primary sense of the word, that is, to grasp it with the body. The exhibition Same Word is an invitation to this experience of apprehending, an invitation to “rub shoulders” with the works in order to discover their language. The two words Same Word could, in fact,...More