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Glía
2023
Artists
HANGAR. Sala Polivalent - C/ Emília Coranty, 16
Glía is a project that takes its inspiration from the human nervous system based on a few drawings by Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Created by Pedro Torres, the installation is a system interlinked with threads and moving neon lights, a fog lamp circuit, lighting and a sound composition produced in numerous layers. These layers gradually join and enrich the density of the sound space. Always depending on the number of people present and, therefore, on the cerebral activity found in the environment. A brain-sculpture with thread curtains that function as a membrane, with an interface that delimits and questions what interior and exterior space is; with neon lights that operate on the basis of electro-chemical connections, like synapses, and a fog circuit that represents a fluid field of information-flux possibilities. Glía invites reflection on complex and interdependent systems. A dynamic system of liminal spaces, time in gaps and memory.
The Brazilian Pedro Torres has held recent individual exhibitions at the Twin Gallery (Madrid), the Centre d'Art Tecla Sala (Hospitalet de Llobregat), the Spazio Volta (Bergamo), the Juan Naranjo Gallery (Barcelona), Aarduork (Venice), Art3 Contemporain (Valencia), the Centro Párraga (Murcia), Casa Seat, the Chiquita Room and the Blueproject Foundation (Barcelona). His notable collective and biennial exhibitions include participation in the Jinan International Biennale (Jinan), Palmadotze (Els Monjos), Anita Schwartz (Rio de Janeiro), the Centre de les Arts Lliures - Joan Brossa Foundation and The Green Parrot (Barcelona), Casal Solleric (Palma de Mallorca), Fabra i Coats: Centre d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, OTR. Espacio de Arte (Madrid), the Cuenca Biennial (Ecuador), CaixaForum Barcelona, BiennalSUR (Buenos Aires), NC-art (Bogota), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), the Mardin Biennial (Turkey), the Biennial of the Frontiers (Mexico) and the Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona) Foundation. He has received awards and production and research grants and is current a resident artist at Hangar (Barcelona).