RocioSantaCruz

RocioSantaCruz is a dynamic space for contemporary creation and thought in all its manifestations. Situated in the neuralgic center of Barcelona, the venue showcases projects by both established artists and emerging talents.

True to is trajectory since its creation in 1994 in Paris as a publisher of artists’ books, RocioSantaCruz honors its commitment to highlighting unpublished archives with the aim of sparking a conversation between the avant-gardes of the latter half of the 20th century and new contemporary practices. The gallery is conceived as a place for experimentation, a forum for discussion, and a space for the diffusion of new practices, where particular interest is paid to photography, experimental cinema, and the archive and publication of artists’ books.

Represented artists:

Pilar Aymerich, Colita, Mar Arza, Vari Caramés, Ceesepe, Jean Denant, Pep Duran, Andrés Galeano, Lluís Hortalà, German Lorca, Miquel Mont, Lois Patiño, Palmira Puig, Miguel Rio Branco, Montserrat Soto, Sergio Vega, Toni Amengual, Gloria Oyarzabal, Antoni Campañà, Blanca Casas Brullet, Nicolás Combarro, Oriol Vilapuig, Gonzalo Elvira, Marcel Giró, Ouka Leele, Fina Miralles, Diogo Pimentao, América Sánchez, Miguel Trillo

Under the title Teoria dels cossos (Theory of the Bodies), taken from Gabriel Ferrater's book of the same name, Oriol Vilapuig's most recent works are grouped here to rehearse and reconnect around the idea of the body.

Placing the body at the center, but not to categorize and fix it, but to generate a movement of digression, an attempt to think of ways to constitute it. A series of images that, in their collisions and vibrations, also here, want to cohere as a signifying body, images that, on the other hand, are received by our bodies in their multiple resonances.

To pass through the gallery space as a passage of open images in which to look is also to encounter a limit, an edge or a break, an overture in which the bodies make room for themselves without reconciling their disparity. A theory that slips through the bodies to search for ways of feeling, to explore thresholds where the elements affect and sensitize each other.

Video: About "Teoria dels cossos" (Theory of the Bodies) by Oriol Vilapuig.