New Archiving Strategies for an Asturian Culture
Juan José Pulgar and Noé Baranda have developed Usos y formas [Uses and Forms] a work straddling visual culture and anthropology, based on their research in the collections of Muséu del Pueblu d’Asturies.
Images can make time visible, can transform it into something that goes beyond the simple chain of cause and effect. The installation shows how anachrony can be used to establish connections which are not reliant on resemblance but, on the contrary, open up to that field of imagination defined by Baudelaire as the “the intimate and secret connection between things, correspondences and analogies.”
Using photography and installation, Usos y formas reflects on the specificity of the Asturian context. The artists’ work creates a kind of atlas that represents everything from the architecture and design of the Universidad Laboral or the Perlora residential area, to the neo-rural movement or the ethnographic activity of Fritz Krüger or Modesto Montoto’s images of rural Asturias.
The exhibition is predicated on the notion of the multiple which, throughout time, strives to create correspondences: a certain historicity of forms which, of late, shows how time is a spiral and never a straight line.
Artists: Noé Baranda and Juan José Pulgar
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Programme of activities funded by the Ministry for Culture and Sports of the Principality of Asturias
