Exhibitions
The house of the wise, amalgams between the past and the present
An exploration of fragments of memory and archive images that transforms history into a constantly evolving narrative.
The Tarragona Provincial Council Museum of Modern Art presents The House of the Sage , an exhibition by Gonzalo Elvira included in the Right to Reply series, curated by Juan de Nieves and which can be seen from April 10 to June 8. The project proposes a critical approach to the mechanisms through which history is constructed, transmitted and legitimized, situating its practice in a territory where memory, archive and image are intertwined in an unstable way.
Elvira's work, developed since the mid-nineties, is characterized by a sustained investigation into historical narratives and their zones of exclusion. In this sense, drawing becomes a central tool, not only as a means of representation, but as a device capable of articulating heterogeneous materials: documents, archive images or textual fragments. Through this procedure, the image ceases to be illustrative to open up as a field of relations in which the past is reorganized into new constellations of meaning.
The House of the Sage takes as its starting point the figure of Antoni Martí i Franquès, a key scientist of the Catalan Enlightenment, whose research on the composition of air and photosynthesis contributed to a new understanding of the natural world. However, the exhibition does not seek to reconstruct a linear biography, but rather to activate a set of fragments that oscillate between documentation and evocation, generating an open narrative where history appears as a disputed territory.
The installation, conceived specifically for the space, combines drawings and projections that cross surfaces and bodies, creating a visual environment in constant transformation. This superposition of layers introduces a complex temporal dimension, in which past and present contaminate each other, destabilizing any univocal reading.
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