ARCO – Back-story

The project presents a vision of contrasts. Of Conflicts and dualities, on a slippery threshold between digital realities and physical realities.
From the solid with basic, pure and full forms of Amparo Tormo, to the liquid, flexible, digital and colorful of Inma Femenía, from the collected, appropriated, captured and superimposed image of Alberto Feijóo, to the painting of Volkan Diyaroglu trying to make tangible the world that exists beyond the screen, to overcome the snapshot with the immobility of the painting, as slow animations.
The term “Back-Story” is commonly used in cinema and journalism to tell everyday stories, to give background to an incident that is being told. It refers to the events that took place chronologically before the main narrative, before its exhibition in ARCO.
The backstory is revealed through “Exposition” of facts and background, such as a vision, a flashback, a staging.
The relationship of these 4 artists is a staging as a dialogue and confrontation where their works are contrasted, veiling and revealing the content from the different viewing angles of the stand, as if it were a backstory that can be revealed.
The relationship of these artists is presented as a harmonious parity, a staging, full of nuances and contrasts, like a prolepsis, like a project in development. The works are transmuted, revealing their formal and conceptual qualities of transparency, opacity, light, line, multiple, verticality, fragment and union, to transform into an almost liquid scene, fragile in constant tension and contrast. A staging where a fragment appears inopportunely here and there, to remind us of the era in which we live.
Back-Story invites us to finish a story; to delve into the delicate tension between the works of these artists, an experience between flexible and rigid materials, organic and industrial, fragmented or degraded, digital or physical, by dislocated discourses extracted from the lightness of everyday life.