NEGADA, AbiertA y desnudA [Negated, OpeN and nakeD] is a project developed at Espai d’art Contemporani of Castelló.
The institution—is as much as organization, cultural body and container—as the subject matter for a spectrum of operations ranging from a sculptural intervention in the actual EACC building itself to the role of the centre as an exhibition venue, the management and direction of its projects and the use of the space by visitors.
NEGADA, AbiertA y desnudA displaces what should be in its place. An area of the exhibition hall is used as a stage or platform on which to display, over a white carpet flooring, the offices, the employees of the centre and their everyday functions, in a continuous performance of the non-visible albeit executive part of policies and decisions.
By reverting the functions, the now empty offices are turned into the exhibition venue, being filled with works created over the last ten years are now inaccessible to us given that the offices are out of bounds to the general public. With the internal functions on the outside, and those affecting the external on the inside, this project once again proposes a scenario where the roles of space, its functions and those of the spectator are extrapolated, in this case through a sculptural intervention in the EACC building itself, generating a free space from the external space to an internal space that is excluded from the rest of the exhibition venue and remains inaccessible from the inside of the hall, with the entrance placed outside the building.
NEGADA, AbiertA y desnudA (NEGATED, OpeN and nakeD), 2011
