“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach. I wanted to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.”
Henry David Thoreau. Walden. 1854
In relation to the work of Thoreau, Mit Borrás, curates an exhibition together with a distrustful generation of artists and proposes a reconsideration to the foundations of a society and an imposed model. RESIST / RESTART talks about renunciation as a dignified action and could be interpreted as reflection on disobedience against dynamic events. The five artists walk between the analysis and rejection of the old socio-cultural paradigms, such as efficiency, welfare, stability and modernity.
Christoph Both-Asmus
(1984, Bad-Soden Salmünster, Germany)
Inspired by and from the first moments of his daydream. In his work, Tree Walker, he studies how and attempts to climb to the top of trees and walk over them.
Skugga Guðlaugsdóttir
(1985, Reykjavik, Iceland)
Both, impact - The free fall of a big object - as well as pressure exerted on viscose substances, produce a change in matter. Crash and impact as irreversible actions.
Rachel Lamot
(1980, Toledo, Spain)
Alternative living spaces are presented in her work by her drawings of tents. In the series To put up a Tent we can see refined drawings with pencil on paper of structures that would be constructed just with rope and fabric.
Clément Loisel
(1985, Boulogne Billancourt, France)
Initially inspired by the Persian Myth of Patience stones, in his same-named works the action of portraying natural forms such as rocks becomes a form of voluntary submission.
Mit Borrás
(1982, Granada, Spain)
His installations, like Continuous Spending Machine #2, are artifacts for unfinished actions. Machines working to produce nothing. He builds devices uselessly precise.
