Serafin Alvarez

Entre las cosas no designa una relación localizable is a project by Serafín Álvarez (León, 1985), one of the four artists chosen in the 1st Call for Exhibition Projects from the Platform to Support Art in Castilla y León, P4, assigned to the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León1.The project started to take form in 2008 and is now being presenting for the first time in the open area just outside the assembly hall at MUSAC. It mixes together traditional ideas such as the human fascination for flying, for journeys, and even for science-fiction, with a contemporary and critical gaze.

In Álvarez’s recent projects and exhibitions, he regularly intermeshes technology, scientific oddities and web culture in his artistic experiences. The end result is a constantly mutating vernacular predicated on an analysis of the cultural constructs that govern human subjectivity today. The project posits a questioning of universal signifieds and signifiers which, grounded in the speed of a means of transport (the airplane), and conventions on the measurement of time (time zones), allows the artist to make displacements between different cities in such a way that the local time zone at the time of taking off and at the time of landing are the same.

This synchronicity enables the realisation of false “tele-transportation” which is used to carry out a series of actions, which will be shown later in the exhibition hall under an aesthetic formulation. Nonetheless, the thrust of the project does not lie in this fictitious instantaneity, but rather in the intermediary path, in the displacement itself and, in short, in those interstices that enable the realisation of heterogeneous experiences.

Entre las cosas no designa… explores a particular reading of globalisation, of displacements and of the possibility of rehearsing a temporal multiplicity or, as the artist himself says: “speed, subjectivity, displacement or physical and psychological alteration are some of the elements around which this project revolves, critically using speed and technology yet at once fascinated by them.”

The exhibition will be rounded off by a publication to be designed by the Barcelona-based studio ferranElotro. This artist’s book embraces both the works created as well as the whole process necessary to bring them to reality, from the plane tickets to photos of the places visited with the purpose of documenting the actions and opening up new lines of research for the project.

Serafin Alvarez
Entre las cosas no designa una relacion localizable
Kurator: Agustin Perez Rubio