Adentro/Afuera V

For the fifth edition of Adentro/Afuera, our annual graduate exhibition, we opened the call –as every year– to graduate students of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid and for this year, we also extended the invitation to graduates of the Polytechnical University of Valencia.

The artists selected for this edition are Paz Corzo from the Complutense University, Laura Salvador Payá, Leo Pum, Pablo Quesada and Sara Mono from the Polytechnical University of Valencia.

Paz Corzo (Madrid, 2002) creates an internet archive around the image of the female body and its representation, creating repetitions in different supports that distance this primary representation from the obvious, generating other possibilities that exert a tension between the represented image and its double, hiding not only the primary intention but even the original image itself.

The practice of Laura Salvador Payá (Valencia, 1998) accesses things, affect, matter itself; she moves between body, space and matter and how these concepts are interchangeable through sculptural practice. The elements employed in her practice are often taken from the everyday context and go beyond their initial function to reveal their perceptual capacity. Instead of treating matter as a passive medium for the expression of concepts, Laura conceives of it as a sentient entity with its own interpretative rules and expressive abilities.

Leo Pum (Colombia, 1997) investigates the geology of digital media, the sensibility-violence of living machines and the tools of new modes of production and manufacture; he elaborates dystopian imaginaries by combining the recycling of obsolete experimental elements with processes of new digital media, such as photogrammetry, lighting and sound or 3D modelling and printing.

Pablo Quesada (Valencia, 2001) explores the ethereal and fluid character of the development of life itself. Distilling situations and organic motifs to the essential, images, pieces and installations appear that refer to fluids, rivers, flows and bodies through which he speaks of an irregular path we all transit.

Sara Mono (Valencia, 1998) explores festive events as mediators of the construction of the social system. The symbolic social construction of the festivity affects the construction of everyday life and vice versa. The work on display stems from an interest in the correlation between the public space and the exhibition space, using the festive context to emphasise the dynamics generated in a specific space-time.

We are grateful for the support of the Faculties of Fine Arts of both universities for the promotion of this open call.