Silvia Palá Intérpretes had the pleasure of providing simultaneous interpreting services for the 9th edition of Talking Galleries, Edition 2022, held on 3 and 4 October in Barcelona.

Talking Galleries is the big think tank on contemporary art galleries.

With a two-day programme of debates, talks and networking, the Barcelona Symposium has brought together national and international art professionals in a framework that promotes exchange and analysis of art galleries.

The 2022 edition marked the return of Talking Galleries’ flagship event to its city of origin, after a two-year break due to the pandemic, and sought to address the new challenges and concerns that have emerged on the art agenda since the previous meeting in early 2020.

Topics of discussion included the impact of NFTs on the market, inclusive narratives in the art world, the rise of Paris as an art centre, the relationship between art fairs and biennials, gallery practices in the secondary market, and innovative projects between art and technology, among other relevant current issues in the sector.

The Silvia Palá Intérpretes team took part in the press conference and opening of the first exhibition that offers a global perspective on the work of Cinthia Marcelle, “A conjunction of factors”, behind which lies the desire to disorganise the hierarchies and binary oppositions that articulate our daily lives. You can see it at MACBA until 8 January 2023.

Information source: Fundación Tàpies

The Fundación Tàpies is hosting, from 15 March to 25 September, the work of the Polish artist Goshka Macuga, born in Warsaw in 1967. In this exhibition, entitled In Movement and co-produced by MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León) and curated by NeusMiró, the artist revisits the relationship between art, power and narratives around events and figures from history.

Her pieces take the form of large installations, specifically three that have been particularly significant in the artist’s career: Plus Ultra, from 2009, The Nature of the Beast (2010) and Untitled (2011). At the centre of each of these three installations is a tapestry, around which other works and documents are also articulated. In each of these three installations she mixes pieces of her own creation with material found in archives and exhibitions, thus proposing new approaches to inherited accounts of historical events and figures.

The artist, who left Warsaw in 1989, the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, explains that she comes from a country where one had to support the Russians, but that her family raised her in hatred of that country. According to Macuga, wealth in Russia is distributed among Putin’s supporters like a drug cartel, and in her opinion she has started collecting art to launder money. Macuga also expresses her concern for the more than one and a half million Ukrainians who have arrived in Poland.

The artist, fragile in appearance but forceful in her gestures and speech, kindly attended to all the media who came to admire her work.

Photos by: Silvia Palá Intérpretes