Sara Agudo Millàn

Statement

Interested in perception and its limits, she addresses questions from close-up. It is the chiasm, the intertwining between what occurs and our view that captures it, an opening of possibilities, that runs through her praxis –from research to production– located at the intersection between art, literature and philosophy. Based on minimal interventions in space, drawings and texts, her actions are records of everyday life as a way to open a dialogue with a certain phenomenon. She works also with performance in order to expand her texts and publications to fold them.

‘The Resistance of the Imperceptible’ is the name of the work she has been developing since 2014, leading to her Master’s dissertation in 2017. Her new project, ‘The Future’ emerges from the ideas generated by this process, and has received the support of the Guasch Coranty Foundation Grant. If the purpose of the first project was the perceptual limits of space, in ‘The Future’ it’s the perceptive limits of time. This project is based on the importance of paying attention to possible future realities that are already latent but still unnoticed.

GlogauAIR Project

Empty Space is a site specific proposal based on the selection of a space where she will begin some research and speculative attempts related to its emptiness. She understands vacuum as a field full of possibilities, instead of a limitation, as a beginning, not as an end. By paying attention to the space, it unfolds as a condition of possibility to be transformed into place in order to experience it. During the process, she will generate a textual material and other records to make an edition later of the score for a performance.

This project follows the line of a performance she did last year in which she chose the empty white room – one that all art schools use to show students work in an apparently neutral context. The main concept underlying her text was that precisely these spaces are a collective artwork shaped by all the traces of each previously exhibited project. On another occasion she made a publication about an old and new building concerning on its potential. Now she proposes to choose a space within Glogauair to write about its perceptible and imperceptible traces, the potentiality of that emptiness spreading over a temporal semantic.

CV Summary

b. 1991 Spain

Education

• 2016-2017 Master’s Degree. Production and Artistic Research. Fine Arts University – UB.
• 2009-2014 Barcelona University Degree. Art and Design. Escola Massana – UAB. Barcelona

Exhibitions

• 2018 La Tèrmica Lab. Festival Panoràmic. Granollers.
• 2018 La Gran Màquina V. Festival Embarrat. Tàrrega.
• 2017 Título. ATI Prodart. Galeria Àngels Barcelona.
• 2017 Invisibles. Galeria Catascopio. Festival Seco Barcelona.
• 2016 Nodes. Mofuta Studio. Barcelona.
• 2016 Apertus 01: the ass between two chairs. Galeria Àngels Barcelona.
• 2016 Apertus 01: Han Nefkens Foundation Workshop presentation. Escola Massana.
• 2014 Instants quotidians. Fnac. Barcelona.
• 2014 Punt i Coma. Editorial Comanegra. Barcelona.
• 2014 Y Punto. Sala Busquets. Escola Massana.
• 2012 Art i Ciutat. Sala Blava. Escola Massana.

Performances

• 2017 Individual performance. Recital Aula Miró – Espacio vacío. Fine Arts University.
• 2017 Collective reading. H by Oriol Vilanova directed by Xavier Albertí. Fundació Antonti Tàpies.

Awards

• 2018 Internationalization Grant. La Escocesa – GlogauAir Program Berlin.
• 2017-2018 Creation Grant. Guasch Coranty Foundation.
• 2016 Apertus 01. Han Nekfens Foundation.

Other Professional experiences

• 2018 Coordination Institutional stand. Arts Libris Fair. April 2018 Assistant of the artist Giuliana Racco.
• 2018 Assistant of the artist Mireia C. Saladrigues.
• 2017 BAR project coordinator.
• 2017 Receptionist and team leader. Fundació Antoni Tàpies.
• 2017 Coordination Escola Massana stand. Arts Libris Fair. Arts Santa Mònica.
• 2016 Workshop: Regen. El Puig School. Esparreguera.
• 2016 Cooking in Maximum Security by Matteo Guidi.
• 2015-2016 Production and research assistant. The Artist and the Stone project.

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