Opening // 'City of Sand', by David Bestué

For City of Sand, David Bestué proposes a shift in the way we look at the city of Barcelona. Understanding it as material and symbol, the artist contrasts the projected dream idea of city – ambitious urban projects in model form – with popular and counter imagery – in the shape of images in the press, revolts and cries that go against the grain, set out in newspapers, which become shared impressions in the collective subconscious of all those who inhabit the city. In a way, Bestué builds a contra-history out of what can be found on the fringes, using the scraps, remnants and debris.

With the artist David Bestué, the curator Marta Sesé, and the director of Fabra i Coats: Centre d'Art Contemporani, Joana Hurtado Matheu. 

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