To Exhibit- · Not to Expose · To Expose · Not to Exhibit

Under the title To Exhibit - Not to Expose - To Expose - Not to Exhibit, we present the first cycle of programming of the new Santa Mònica. The exhibition orbits around a series of questions that derive from the very processes of deconstruction and reconstruction of an arts centre in the institutional, architectural and symbolic spheres.

The first major exhibition of the new Santa Mònica reveals and questions exhibition mechanisms: the physical but invisible ones, and the immaterial ones that remain in the shadows by their very nature. The technology (high and low) that hides behind the works, the architectures behind the props, the spotlights... All are exposed. But it also exposes the institutional gestures and (dis)affections that are hidden in any exhibition; and the people, those who are artists and those who are not, the different bodies, with segmented functions, that support from the ground up all the creative work that is finally presented in an arts centre.

For sixteen weeks, the cycle analyses the exhibition and dissemination mechanisms with which the centre works and will work. A living organism, mutable, permanently in transformation, it offers different readings to each visitor and new layers with each visit.

Opening event on 24/09/2021

17h Opening of doors
Opening of the exhibition

17'30h Presentation of the new cycle at Santa Mònica (24 September 2021 - 9 January 2022)
By Enric Puig and artists

17'45h Visit to the artistic proposals by the artists.
In the corresponding spaces on Level 0, Cloister, stairs, terrace, Level 1 and Level 2.

19h Activation
Desnonissea, dramatic poem by Roger Bernat
Cloister

20'30h Performance
Performance Kicked with the front Foot on the Dark Side of the Deck IV, by Esperanza Collado & Las de Cuenca
Facade of the Santa Mònica

WITH WORKS BY:

Roger Bernat
Desnonissea 
Collaborators: Luana Raiter and Pedro Bennaton (Erro Group)
Epic poem: Núria Martínez-Vernis and Oriol Sauleda
Witnesses and indications: Emma Craciun, (housing crisis sufferer and activist for the right to decent housing), Walter San Joaquín (República de las Estatuas Humanas de La Rambla), Piedad Chavarro (entertainer), Núria Martínez-Vernis i Oriol Sauleda (poets) i Roger Bernat (puppeteer).
Video: Clicksound
Programming: Mar Canet and Varvara Guljajeva
Graphics: Marie-Klara González
Make-up and special effects: Anita Sabina Vergara
Acknowledgements: Sílvia i Júlia (PAHC Baix Montseny), Sònia (Sindicat de la Barceloneta), Marc Aureli Santos (Arquitectura i Patrimoni, Ajuntament de Barcelona), Xevi, Clei Grött, Teresa Sanz, Ximena Abell, comunitats de Can Madró i La Borda, PAH de Barcelona, Revista Masala, Observatori d’Antropologia del Conflicte Urbà and residences in the RARA, where the dramatic poem has been written.

Jordi Guillumet and Mònica Roselló
Tabula rasa [Clean slate]
Audiovisual support: BAF

Joana Moll
16/2017
Collaborators: Oriol Gayán, Maria Farràs, Inèdit Innova (Jordi Olivé and Anna Aymerich)

Mariona Moncunill
Obrir una porta pel costat de la Rambla en què pengi una soga amb campana [Open a door on La Rambla side from which a bell hangs from a rope]
Collaborators: Historical Archive of the City of Barcelona, Contemporary Municipal Archive of Barcelona, Archive of the Crown of Aragon and the Services Directorate of the Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Design: ferranElOtro
Acknowledgements: Sergi Botella, Jordi Picas, Josep Girabal Ros and Francesc Llonch

Antoni Muntadas
Agraïments [Acknowledgements]
Collaborator: Victoria Sacco
Video editing: Coralí Mercader

Roc Parés
Janus
Collaborators: Estampa (Roc Albalat, Pau Artigas, Marcel Pié, Marc Padró and Daniel Pitarch)

Mario Santamaria
Itinerari virtual [Virtual tour]
Production assistant: Juan Pablo Campistrous 
Acknowledgements: Arnau Blanch

WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF:
Valentina Alvarado Matos, Carlos Vásquez Méndez, Paula Artés, Elena Blesa Cábez, cabosanroque (Roger Aixut and Laia Torrents), Azahara Cerezo, Jordi Ferreiro, Laia Guarro Comunicació Gràfica (Cristina Carrero and Laia Guarro), Anna Madueño, Neus Molina, Ricardo Pérez-Hita (LaLaberinta), Ángela Precht, Radial Radiant (Silvia Renda and Erica Volpini), Diana Rangel, Mònica Rovira and Ezequiel Soriano.

IN DIALOGUE WITH:

Panoràmic (from 14 October to 28 November)
Works by: Jonathan Brown and Dina Kellerman
Curator: Andrés Hispano

OUT-SIDE (from 19 October to 5 December)
Works by: Ensemble New Babylon and Meriel Price + FRAMES Percussion
Curator: Luis Codera Puzo
Collaborators: Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and ICUB

Flux [Flow] (from 14 December to 9 January)
Works by: Albert Alcoz, Félix Pérez-Hita, Yapci Ramos, Lluís Escartín, Daniel Barbé Farré, Terry Berkowitz, Joma, Lulu Martorell, Mabel Palacín, Julián Pedraza, Diana Rangel, Behdad Rezazadeh, Noemi Sjöberg, David Ymbernon, Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto
Curator: Lis Costa and Josep M. Jordana (Habitual Video Team)

DIRECTED BY:
Marta Gracia, Enric Puig Punyet and Ferran Utzet

PRODUCED BY:
Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica
Directed by: Enric Puig Punyet
Coordinator: Roger Vinent Arnau
Publications: Cinta Massip
Technical director: Marina Rubio Marco
Activities coordinator: Eva Ruiz
Administrators: Cristina Güell and Sònia Izquierdo
Communication: Juanjo Gutiérrez and Luis Villalón
Graphic design: Ellen Dietrich
Photography: Jordi Play
Videos: Clicksound
Visitor services and information staff: Elizabeth Bertolín, Silvia Camacho, Òscar Canal, Raúl González, Roser Martin, Héctor Martos, Àngel Monlleó, Núria Ruiz y Josep Valero. (MagmaCultura)
Assembly: Alejandro Aznar Sanroman, Luis Bisbe de la Fuente, Carles Gavilán Barragán, Luis José Hernández Campo, Xavi Hernández Ruiz, Francesc Muñoz Casas and Begoña Terradas Rodríguez (Grop)
Sound, light and audiovisual technicians: Guillem Balaguer, Àlex Carrera, Guillem Muñoz, Jaume Baena, Pau Aragó and Carlos Bergua (Events)