Centre Cultural La Nau, Sala Martínez Guerricabeitia
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Organisers
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Universitat de València
Centre Cultural La Nau
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Collaborates
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Banc Santander
Heineken
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| Comissioner | Mery Sales |
EL INCENDIO Y LA PALABRA, 2015
A pictorial reasoning on the thought of Hannah Arendt
“El incendio y la palabra” (“Fire and word”) reclaims, from a pictorial view, the essence of a courageous and committed discourse as it is the one of the Judaeo-German thinker Hannah Arendt, woman who had the talent of understanding the atrocities of her time and the courage to tell it live. Her voice infects commitment and is indispensable to learn to identify the fires of our present day, from a restorative political outlook.
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| El mal © Mery Sales |
The art is one of the ways of thinking that allow us for reasoning what we are with a necessary dose of imagination, what we would call “a poetic reasoning”; it provides expressive emotion to the philosophical discourse, and gains importance if we aim to go in depth into the most distant conscience of the human behaviour, in its unpredictable and contradictory nature. Thus, poetry dares to show, beyond the reflexive logics, the complexity that distinguishes human beings form the rest of species, able of the best but also the worst.
The word of Hannah Arendt, connoisseur of the efficacy of the double formula of the poetic reasoning (telling the unspeakable through metaphor), will also need to bend down to reality so that people understand it, by looking for the hard combination of the deep and the creative with the basic and common understanding. This way, Arendt will opt for a method able of combining two of her fundamental topics: violence and freedom with its inevitable condition of pariah, and wanting to talk without fear of the developments of the immediate present. Her discursive process, undeniably original, will be at the same time uncomfortable by its reaction to the inexorable mines of the established right in the battlefield.
Both her voice and her vital attitude are exemplary substances, essential in our time, and the urge that burns in this tribute. This exhibition aimed to serve as an approach channel to our reality from this unusual and arendtian prism, applicable also to “the committed painting”, also seen sometimes as “pariah” and sister, in this case, in the utopic need of explaining the unexplainable on the streets.
Mery Sales
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| Mare mortum © Mery Sales |
