Exhibitions
The right to live outside of normative time
Curator Angeliga Tognetti lands in Badalona with an exhibition that turns temporary dissidence into a critical tool in the face of the accelerated rhythms of the contemporary system.
The Josep Uclés room in Badalona hosts Politics of Delay. Arriving at Timelessness , the new project curated by Angeliga Tognetti, a collaborator of bonart , a proposal that transcends the conventional exhibition format to become an incisive reflection on the way time regulates our lives, our bodies and our forms of existence. More than simply proposing a claim for slowness, the exhibition questions the mechanisms that impose a single legitimate temporality: that of productivity, efficiency and performance.
The tour is based on a seemingly simple question but one loaded with political consequences: what temporalities have the right to inhabit our bodies? Based on this question, the exhibition invites us to imagine other ways of reaching the world, occupying it and living it. Arriving late, not arriving or arriving in a different way ceases to be a failure and becomes a gesture of resistance to the demands of a normative time that often expels everything that does not adapt to it.
Tognetti's curatorial proposal establishes a particularly suggestive dialogue between the works of Juan David Galindo Guarín and Natalia Domínguez, marked by the idea of hyperproduction and contemporary acceleration, and the pieces of Ortésia Cabrera-Espuny and Consol Llupià García, which place the vulnerable body at the center of the story. This tension between speed and fragility becomes the main conceptual axis of the exhibition and demonstrates the extent to which the politics of time also condition the ways of looking, creating and relating.
From a critical perspective, the exhibition avoids falling into a nostalgic reading of slowness. Its interest lies precisely in understanding delay as a political category capable of destabilizing the imaginaries of success and permanent availability. Time ceases to be a neutral magnitude to reveal itself as an instrument of power that determines who is productive, who is useful and who is relegated to the margins.
It is at this point that the exhibition unfolds its most forceful discourse. Faced with the figure of the mechanical body, efficient and permanently available, Politics of Delay. Arriving Out of Time claims the existence of dissident temporalities: sick, tired, traumatized bodies, those who give up or the bodies of the dissident, all those that the system tends to consider unproductive or out of place. Far from understanding these experiences as an exception, the exhibition places them as an essential reality for rethinking forms of coexistence and collective imaginaries.
Tognetti's perspective makes the whole work a space of friction rather than certainty. The works do not offer conclusive answers, but rather invite the visitor to embrace the mismatch as an emancipatory possibility. In this sense, the exhibition dialogues with some of the most current debates on body politics, care and disability, placing Badalona within a fully contemporary artistic conversation.
With this project, Angeliga Tognetti signs a proposal that demonstrates how curatorial practice can become a critical exercise capable of questioning the invisible structures that organize everyday life. Politics of delay. Arriving at a time that is out of time not only claims the right to live other rhythms, but also raises an uncomfortable but necessary question: what happens when we decide to stop running after the time that has been imposed on us?
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