Summary: Mireia c. Saladrigues works during her residence at Le LAIT and La Panacée in three outputs and one exhibition: Behaving Unconventionally. Tests #3 and #4, A Specific Representation #2, L'analyse de la vue and Echoes #4, Entre autre Mouvements. Through practical tests and collaborative implementations, she explores trials to deconstruct the (conceptual) architecture of display and the Kantian paradigm of spectatorship. She uses photography, video and installation for researching in the common areas between choreography, sociology and contemporary art.
Keywords: spectatorship, institutional critique, cultural inscription, gestural conditioning, gaze, art reception, relation audience - art.
Mireia c. Saladrigues
Terrassa, 1978. She lives and works in Barcelona and Helsinki.
Her work focuses on the reception channels of artistic practices and the conditions that spectators encounter. She analyses institutions as a space of social and economic production and how such spaces exercise control over artistic production and their perception. Using empirical methodology and theoretical sources, she seeks out new formats for each project and analyses the process. She aims to link the work, the creator, the public and the context and break down the bars to these relations. Influenced by the documentary, the archive, the relational aesthetic and institutional criticism, she flees from pre-established blueprints and looks at the distance existing between contemporary art and the general public, and its reason. Her projects count on the support of an interlocutor – an accomplice who intervenes in the project, acting as a trigger to the controversy between real artistic practice and the user.
She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. She is currently studying a Doctorate at the Arts University, Helsinki, Finland.
She has exhibited a large part of her work in Barcelona at Espai 13 of Joan Miró Foundation (2011), La Capella (2014), Antoni Tàpies Foundation (2014), Can Felipa (2014, 2013 and 2012), àngels barcelona gallery (2013, 2012 and 2008), at Cultural Centre of Caja Madrid (2011); at Aparador of Museum Abelló in Mollet del Vallés (2012); and at Espai Guinovart in Agramunt (2011). In Europe, she has exhibited in Finland at Kiasma (2009), at Pori Art Museum (2008), XL Art Space (2014) and the Kallio Kunsthalle Taidehalli (2012); at Onomatopee in Eindhoven (2015 and 2012); at La BF15,(2014) in Lyon; as much as at DIA and CAA in the United States.
She has received numerous awards and grants, from which the most recent are Kone Research Grant (2016), SAAR. Summer University of Artistic Research (2015 i 2014), Kuvataide Akatemia PhD in Helsinki (2015 i 2014), OSIC. Research and creation grant, Catalunya (2012).
Behaving Unconventionally. Tests #3 and #4, A Specific Representation #2, L'analyse de la vue and Echoes #4, Entre autre Mouvements.
The ETAC residences of Saladrigues were at the Art Centre Le LAIT, Albi and at La Panacée, Montpellier. Her initial research plan proposed an artistic re-reading of unconventionality in public’s behaviour as fertile “tools” when it comes to engagement with art. Thus for exploring methods to deconstruct spectatorship, previously assigned manners, and stipulated interactions with artworks.
After adjusting to the circumstances of each centre, the working sessions also addressed other areas related to the (conceptual) architecture of display, while adopting different methodologies and displacing locations. Via Le LAIT, she underwent one of the proposed practical exercises at BBB and at Les Abbatoirs in Toulouse with Behaving Unconventionally. Tests #3 and #4. Simultaneously, she also made A Specific Representation #2 at Carrières Plo.
At La Panacée along with Singulier Pluriel company she gesturally explored the nature of the gaze with L'analyse de la vue.
The documentation of experimentations has been made as personal reflections and questionnaires, group conversations, videos and photographies. Both residences activated several attitudes and aptitudes: constant adaptation, ideation of specific methodologies of collaboration, interrelation, horizontal communication, empathic coordination, non instrumentalization of subjectivities, and representation of agency. Also learning French and learning French sign language, as much as a continued explanation and dissemination of concepts.
In relation to the inquiry in Albi, between the 24th of January to the 8th of March, an individual exhibition took place at the Art Centre Le LAIT in collaboration with ADDA: Echoes #4. Entre autres mouvements, where Yago Hortal and Mark Lorimer were invited.
