Scene II. Latencies is the second in a series of exhibitions that revisit the IVAM Collection through a process-driven, sensitive and open approach. These mises-en-scène encourage an open-ended interpretation, activating subtle connections between works, materials, documents, gestures and diverse temporalities. The Collection is presented as a living tapestry of stories, memories, emotions and possibilities, expressed through vulnerability and interdependence, with a focus on change and transformation, on both the drive and potential – also the potential of rupture – whilst remaining attuned to the processes of becoming and transformation.
Latencies links works created almost a century ago with contemporary productions. It also situates administrative materials from the museum’s early exhibitions alongside video documentation of performances from the previous phase of the Collection, Making Landscape. The chosen objects transcend the boundaries of formal autonomy, incorporating the biographical, the poetic and the political. They share a common thread: a practice-based thought developed and executed by different bodies, each sensitive to the conditions that shape and enable their forms. The exhibition is structured as a network of presences and absences that appeals to the viewer’s sensitivity, fostering an intimate relationship between the artwork and the experience.
This scene brings together the varied practices of artists such as Ibon Aranberri, Diana Blok, Joan Cardells, Claude Cahun, Olga Diego, Pepe Espaliú, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Ángeles Marco, Xisco Mensua, Juan Muñoz, Zanele Muholi, Bruce Nauman, Ana Penyas, Alex Reynolds, Mar Reykjavik, Guillermo Ros, Robert Rauschenberg, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Richard Serra, M Reme Silvestre, Susana Solano, and Azucena Vieites, along with documents and materials from the IVAM’s Registration Department.
