Exhibitions
Art or reality?
In Santa Monica, art unfolds as a device of illusion that questions truth and reconfigures our way of perceiving the world.
The Assault on Illusion —at the Santa Monica Arts Center— proposes until September 27, a reading of art as a tool of deception and illusion, exploring how it has influenced our perception of reality and has functioned, in some way, as a point of reference for collective and individual desire.
The exhibition, curated by Enric Puig Punyet, addresses concepts such as post-truth, power dynamics and the mechanisms of art that, directly or indirectly, provoke in the viewer a way of looking at the world according to its own codes; how art has the capacity to blur the line between reality and fiction and become a mixture of both that can be, in the end, as real as the very meaning —sometimes ambiguous— of the word truth.
Image of the meeting between Núria Güell and the director of Santa Mònica, Enric Puig, in which the artist proposed to apply, literally and as an artistic action, the ideology of the arts center he directs.
The exhibition consists of a dynamic journey —guided by pieces by artists such as AA Murakami, Chico Amaral or Julia Santa Olalla— that aims to provoke, in the viewer, a constant clash between illusion and reality, thus highlighting the mechanisms in terms of the manipulation of art on their perception of the world.
The exhibition is structured in a route that integrates four spaces: the space of illusion, where the point of view is played with and the laws of space are not at the service of reason but of seduction; the space of revelation, which discovers the technique of the former; the space of questioning, focused above all on the digital manipulation tools of our time; and finally the space of recapitulation, which articulates a genealogy of the perception of art and its influences on the context.
In this way, The Assault of Illusion proposes a dialogue about the capacity of art to deceive, or generate illusions, and its influence on our perception of the world today.
. Work by Miquel Mártir.
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