View of Joan Morey's retrospective exhibition ‘COLLAPSE. Bachelor Machine’, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, 31 January–6 September 2020
© Joan Morey. Photography: Roberto Ruiz | Courtesy of the artist and Casal Solleric.
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Since the late 1990s, Joan Morey (Mallorca, 1972) has produced an expansive body of live events, videos, installations, sound and graphic works, that has explored the intersection of theatre, cinema, philosophy, sexuality, and subjectivity. Morey’s work both critiques and embodies one of the most thorny and far-reaching aspects of human consciousness and behaviour – how we relate ourselves to others, as the oppressed or the oppressor. This central preoccupation with the exercise of power and authority seemingly accounts for the black and ominous tenor of his art.
‘COLLAPSE. Bachelor Machine’ is an adaptation of two of the three-part project COLLAPSE presented simultaneously in Barcelona between September 2018 and January 2019. The twelve stately rooms of Casal Solleric’s 18th-century piano nobile and its columned patio host an overview of six projects produced between 2007 and 2017, and a continuous programme of eight audio works: recordings of dramatised readings made live as part of performances or used as soundtracks for previous exhibitions. This is the first retrospective of Morey in his native Mallorca.
On July 23, 2020, Morey presented the performance ‘COL·LAPSE. Màquina possible’ at the nearby Can Balaguer.
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COLLAPSE is curated by Latitudes and organised by the Directorate-General of Visual Arts of the Culture and Social Welfare Council, Palma City Council.
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—> info: www.lttds.org/projects/morey/
View of Joan Morey's retrospective exhibition ‘COLLAPSE. Bachelor Machine’, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, 31 January–6 September 2020
© Joan Morey. Photography: Roberto Ruiz | Courtesy of the artist and Casal Solleric.
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Since the late 1990s, Joan Morey (Mallorca, 1972) has produced an expansive body of live events, videos, installations, sound and graphic works, that has explored the intersection of theatre, cinema, philosophy, sexuality, and subjectivity. Morey’s work both critiques and embodies one of the most thorny and far-reaching aspects of human consciousness and behaviour – how we relate ourselves to others, as the oppressed or the oppressor. This central preoccupation with the exercise of power and authority seemingly accounts for the black and ominous tenor of his art.
‘COLLAPSE. Bachelor Machine’ is an adaptation of two of the three-part project COLLAPSE presented simultaneously in Barcelona between September 2018 and January 2019. The twelve stately rooms of Casal Solleric’s 18th-century piano nobile and its columned patio host an overview of six projects produced between 2007 and 2017, and a continuous programme of eight audio works: recordings of dramatised readings made live as part of performances or used as soundtracks for previous exhibitions. This is the first retrospective of Morey in his native Mallorca.
On July 23, 2020, Morey presented the performance ‘COL·LAPSE. Màquina possible’ at the nearby Can Balaguer.
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COLLAPSE is curated by Latitudes and organised by the Directorate-General of Visual Arts of the Culture and Social Welfare Council, Palma City Council.
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—> info: www.lttds.org/projects/morey/