In the Troubled Air...
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Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) Carrer de Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona
Image courtesy of CCCB.
In the Troubled Air... pays homage to Federico García Lorca and his idea of duende, a heightened state of emotion. It takes its title from a line in the poem “Ballad of the Moon” that opens Lorca’s Gypsy Ballads. The line (“In the troubled air”) refers to the atmosphere that is generated between us, the observers, and the image or work of art observed. It is in this “air” that the emotion or duende occurs.
Because emotions trouble us and expose us to others, and because we live in an environment that is saturated with images, the philosopher and curator Georges Didi-Huberman proposes that we take a critical distance, and stop to read the images and observe the emotions. In the Troubled Air... also explores how emotions are transmitted collectively, from the imaginative gaze of children to emotions in thought, face, gesture, space and time. The exhibition closes with a reflection on the ethical and political dimension of emotion.
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