In charge of Ogmia Company "Replicant" Coordinated by: OtraDanza
A performance that transcends contemporary dance to reflect on the body in motion.
The world is governed by a tireless and incandescent will that turns us into machines of desire. We desire ceaselessly and, after the satisfaction of one longing, another emerges that demands to be fulfilled. This dynamic drags us relentlessly between two inevitable poles: suffering and boredom.
In this back-and-forth, the search for freedom presents itself as a challenge, since free will will always be conditioned by desire.
Replicant explores the intersection between dance, existentialism, and transhumanism. The work investigates the human condition, freedom, and self-determination, using the body in motion as a means of expression. It also seeks to offer a personal perspective on the spirit, life, and individual consciousness, as well as examine the moral conflict in the construction of being.
Are freedom and self-determination essential conditions for defining what is human?
The MACA presents the largest Kara Walker exhibition held to date in Spain. The exhibition, which can be visited until September 7, is curated by Rosa Castells, and offers a journey through her trajectory over the last four decades. Kara Walker is one of the most prominent artists of her generation and one of the most interesting figures in the international art scene, with a complex body of work that analyzes, in sometimes chaotic scenes, issues of race, identity, power and desire used always as systems of oppression and subjugation, across centuries and continents.The exhibition brings together the numerous works by Kara Walker present in the Michael Jenkins and Javier Romero collection at the MACA. It consists of 44 pieces that cover part of her trajectory and constitute one of the most complete sets of the artist's work existing in European institutions. Here are displayed drawings, prints, sculptures, artist books and one of her most recent videos, a total of 31 works donated in ownership to the MACA in 2021 and 13 pieces deposited in 2024 for this exhibition that have traveled from New York. Her work addresses themes of violence, identity, race and sexuality in the context of the still-present psychological wound caused by the tragic legacy of slavery, presenting a critical vision of the historical past and examining racial and gender stereotypes in our current society.Known for her work of paper-cut silhouettes, inspired by the historical tradition of Victorian shadow portraits, shadow theater or magic lanterns, Walker uses, in works of great formal beauty, the language of satire and archetypes to reveal the contradictions of the concept a nation has of itself, while casting a very lucid subversive gaze on the historical-artistic allusions that influence her works.Through drawing, printmaking, sculpture, video and installation, the artist explores the representation of the notion of race in modern and contemporary art, as well as the need to establish new narratives that challenge the way we look at and understand history. The images in Walker's work, drawn from both historical realism and the fantastical space of the imagined, seduce through their emotional rawness, the intellectual force they contain and their extraordinary visual beauty.
The April in Dance Festival has had the "MACA EN VIVO" program since 2023. Expanded programming carried out from the direction of April in Dance in collaboration with MACA and the Museum Consortium.
