
10.06.21 –
22.06.21
Remove Layers With the Tongue
Pradiauto hosts the first FOCUS of the Institute for Postnatural Studies (Madrid), which focuses on the artistic practice of Eulàlia Rovira and Adrian Schindler. It is the first occasion in which a selection of their joint work, developed in parallel to their individual practices, is shown in Madrid. Their collaboration is vertebrated by writing and poses exercises of displacement of both the eye that looks and the voice that narrates. Moving between the underground and the surface, the pieces traverse gases, bones, chemicals, divinities, technologies and plants in an attempt to subvert the centrality of the subject.
"Une lampe éclaire une lampe qui éclaire", "La Part Sombre" and "When you light this rock it burns like wood", delve into oil shale, a hydrocarbon-rich sedimentary rock that was mined before the discovery of oil.
By stopping at a gesture as minimal as peeling a fruit discarded by mass consumption, La figa, l'espina, l'escut reclaims a space of latency and singularity outside the systems of standardization and exclusion. Bringing together pieces from the last four years, the exhibition moves through fields and issues common to the framework of the Institute for Postnatural Studies such as geology, fossil fuels, global trade, landscape and non-human agency.
"Une lampe éclaire une lampe qui éclaire", "La Part Sombre" and "When you light this rock it burns like wood", delve into oil shale, a hydrocarbon-rich sedimentary rock that was mined before the discovery of oil.
By stopping at a gesture as minimal as peeling a fruit discarded by mass consumption, La figa, l'espina, l'escut reclaims a space of latency and singularity outside the systems of standardization and exclusion. Bringing together pieces from the last four years, the exhibition moves through fields and issues common to the framework of the Institute for Postnatural Studies such as geology, fossil fuels, global trade, landscape and non-human agency.
Adrian Schindler
(France/Germany, 1989) has lived in Spain since 2014. In his practice he addresses the link between historical events, cultural production and state ideology, with specific emphasis on their impact on subjectivities. Often collaborative in nature, it takes the form of performance art pieces, films, installations and public encounters. His work has been presented at MACBA (2021), The Green Parrot, Barcelona (2021), Espositivo, Madrid (2021), Fabra i Coats, Barcelona (2021), Centre d’art Le Lait, Albi (2020), the Mahal Art Space, Tangier (2019), La Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris (2018), La Capella, Barcelona (2017) or FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims (2017). His residences include Casa de Velázquez, Madrid (2020-21, 2019), Château Nour, Brussels (2020), Superdeals, Brussels (2018), Le Centquatre, Paris (2014-15) and ZK/U, Berlin (2012-13). He has studied at the Institute for Art in Context, UdK Berlin (2015), la École des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2012), Columbia College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2011).
Eulàlia Rovira
(Barcelona, 1985) holds a degree in Fine Arts and a master's degree in Art in Context from the UdK in Berlin. Her practice explores the foundations that structure Western righteousness and how they petrify bodies and language. Recently, she has exhibited at Twin Gallery (Madrid), Capella de Sant Roc (Valls), Centro de Arte La Panera (Lleida), M|A|C (Mataró), Centro de Arte Maristany (Sant Cugat) or Sala Amadís de Injuve (Madrid). Since 2013 he has also been working in collaboration with the artist Adrian Schindler. They have exhibited at Musée de Bibracte (Saint-Léger-sur-Beuvray, FR), Sala Muncunill (Terrassa), Homesession and Fireplace (Barcelona), and in group exhibitions or screenings such as Galerie Martin Janda (Vienna), àngelsbarcelona, EtHall (Hospitalet), Turf Projects (Croydon, UK), Centro Cultural Montehermoso (Vitoria), ZKU - Center for Art and Urbanistics (Berlin) and the Escocesa (Barcelona). In 2018 they were awarded the visual arts grant from the Güell Foundation.