Anna Malagrida. Opacitas: Veiling Transparency

13.03.202528.09.2025

Dates

13.03.202528.09.2025


Price

General entrance: 12.00 €

Certified students and people over 65: 8 €

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· General admission: €12

 

· Accredited students and people over 65: €8

 

· Under 16s; Friends of the Tàpies Museum; Unemployed people: Free admission.


Curator

Patrícia Sorroche.


Opening

March 13, 2025 | 7 p.m.

Opening dialogue between Anna Malagrida and Marta Gili, curated by Patricia Sorroche


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Opacitas: Veiling Transparency takes us on a journey through the work of Anna Malagrida (Barcelona, 1970) and presents a project that explores photography, video and installation. Her gaze focuses on the liminal spaces that unite and separate, bringing opposites into conversation.

Malagrida mainly situates us in the city and in a few constructed natural spaces. Through a play of perspectives, from the interior to the exterior and vice versa, her photographs and video installations become windows that reveal and conceal the tensions that run through society. Her polysemic gaze escapes a univocal interpretation of images in order to inhabit certain entropic spaces that she invites us to discover through her work.

Malagrida’s images capture the remnants and the infraslight traces, indexes, signs that refer to previous moments, social tensions or simple anonymous gestures. The visual ambiguity in her work is revealed through the texture of her images, which evoke pictorial references and dissolve the limits between appearance and reality. Images of closed shop windows painted with characteristic whitewash, an opaque veil that prevents us from looking inside and transforms these spaces into abstract surfaces, resembling large pictorial canvases. Poetic actions operate in her works with a multiplicity of meanings: the painter’s gesture is also that of the working body, and the city and the landscape are revealed from within. Said gestures are erased, cleansed or simply fixed by the passage of time, cyclical and mutable.

Her work, which transcends photography and painting, immerses the viewer in a visual experience with multiple meanings and invites them to look at the city and natural surroundings from a new perspective, one that reveals the vestiges of a landscape affected by social and economic change. Her practice is a space for reflecting on vulnerability, resistance and the possibility of reconstruction, both of the individual and the environment they inhabit.

 

[Anna Malagrida, Showcases. Boulevard Sébastopol. Shop windows. Boulevard Sébastopol (2009) © Anna Malagrida / VEGAP, 2025]

 

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