Empty Pictures. Oriol Vilapuig

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Photo courtesy of Barcelona Cultura.

The images in the work of Oriol Vilapuig (Sabadell, 1964) are a kind of poiesis, in other words, a trigger that generates meaning and invites us to consider not only the position of the artist but also the stances of those who approach them.

Rather than an archive of fetishes retrieved from the past or from the present, the snapshots that Vilapuig creates share a tripartite nature: they come from extemporaneous places and are heading towards ungovernable locations; they walk with one foot in the apocalypse and the other in apotheosis; they speak while revealing themselves and they empty themselves so that we can narrate them.

This exhibition brings together several projects created specifically by Oriol Vilapuig (Sabadell, 1964), which explore the cognitive, sensitive and transformative power of images, their capacity for association and revelation, and the ways in which they subvert the visible world.

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