Thursday, June 30, 7pm:
Conversation with the artist Daniel de la Barra and the curator Alicia Chillida.
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The project “Destierro” reflects on the representation of the landscape from the romantic point of view, the exploitation of the landscape with the fields, the question of colonial domination, the expeditions of traveling painters beginning in the seventeenth century to the present maps satellites and their connection to power and surveillance.
Daniel de la Barra brings to the exhibition space of Galeria Joan Prats an action previously carried out in the Delta de l’Ebre, within the framework of a residence at Lo Pati (Amposta). The installation immerses us in a reflection on the monoculture of rice and its consequences at the environmental level.
Curator: Alicia Chillida
Daniel de la Barra. Lima, Perú (1992). Lives and Works in Rome
Daniel de la Barra moves between painting, installation and public intervention, focusing his work on the re-construction of narratives in societies within the homogenization of the public landscape and the hierarchical imposition of powers of domination within the framework of colonial capitalism. He began his studies in 2012 at the Escuela de Arte Contemporáneo Corriente Alterna (Lima, Peru) until 2014, when he moved to Madrid to continue his painting studies.
He has carried out artistic residencies at La Escocesa Fabrica de creació, Piramidon Centre d’art Contemporani, Homesession, in Barcelona where he lived 7 years, and The Nerdrum School (Sweden). He has developed several exhibition projects and interventions such as “Pròxima Obertura” at Montjuic Castle, Barcelona, “Esc-Out” at Fabra i Coats Centre d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, “Ruta de los Indianos – Consideraciones de la Ciudad Moderna,” at Lo Pati within the Bienal de Amposta, “Paisajes Deseados” at Arts Santa Mónica, Barcelona, “SUBVERSIÓ! Manifestacions perifèriques per a una història reversible” at El Born CCM, Barcelona or “Invation 30230” at Museo Central de Lima. In 2018 and 2019 he has received the Research and Experimentation Grant from La Escocesa, the Young Art Prize of Catalonia 2019 (Sala d’Art Jove) and in 2021 to develop his project “Real Expedición Botánica” in collaboration with La Panera de Lleida and Lo Pati, Amposta.