Maria Llopis
18 July 2011 – 31 July 2011
Artist, activist, queer, post-pornographer…
Graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Valencia (1998) and Master in Audiovisual Animation at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2000).
Her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions and video programmes such as Artivistic, Montreal (2009), The Art and Politics of Netporn, Amsterdam (2006), at the Montehermoso Cultural Centre, Vitoria-Gasteiz (2010) or at the Volte Gallery in Bombay (2010).
Her professional work includes numerous workshops on art and feminism in centres such as Hangar or Arteleku in Spain, the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2008) or the postpornography workshop at the City of Women Festival in Ljubljana (2007). From 2003 to 2007 she was an active member of the multidisciplinary collective ‘Girlswholikeporno’, with a great international trajectory. She presented an audiovisual performance at Sónar, International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art in Barcelona (2004).
She has also given lectures on new representations of sexuality in art at various Spanish universities, at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2010), and at the Post Porn Politics Symposium in Berlin (2006). In 2010 he published the book El posporno era eso with the publishing house Melusina (Barcelona).
http://www.mariallopis.com/
Project in residence
No hay pan para tanto chorizo
The aim of this project is to carry out an investigation into the origin of the evil that has given rise to the dissent of thousands of people in the 15M movement: greed.
No hay pan para tanto chorizo’ is one of the most popular slogans during the revolts that have taken place – and are still ongoing as this proposal is presented in various Spanish cities, under the name of the 15M movement.
This simple protest phrase refers to the numerous financial scandals that have taken place in our country in recent years and which have exposed the greed and lack of scruples of politicians and bankers. On the other hand, the global economic crisis facing capitalist society has its origins in a series of high-risk financial practices driven by a clearly insatiable desire to accumulate wealth. The situation of economic chaos we have reached is a logical development of the capitalist system, and more specifically of liberal economics.
When this banner is displayed at demonstrations, it is a criticism of the systematic theft by the political class in this country, but on another discursive level it is questioning human greed. There will never be enough bread for those who can never be satisfied.
It is true that in the face of excessive greed, it is impossible to satisfy the desires of human beings. But what is the origin of this excessive greed, and what has led human beings to distort reality in such a way that they are driven to accumulate wealth without any limits? On the one hand we have fear. Fear originating from the state of lack in which we live. We live in the firm belief that there is not enough to go around. So we must accumulate as much wealth as we can in order to cope with this state of lack.
On the other hand we have the impossibility of reaching a state of satisfaction, the impossibility of fulfilling desires.
