Experiencia Infinita

Experiencia Infinita, an exhibition of live works inviting us to reflect on our way of life and our approaches to art and the museum, will open at MALBA on March 19. The exhibition is curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio and features constructed situations, live installations, representations, and choreographies created in the early years of the Twenty First Century. The idea behind the exhibition emerges from the question: Can there be a living museum, where artworks act, speak, move, and live forever? Curator Pérez Rubio, who is also MALBA's Artistic Director, notes that "The works in Experiencia Infinita take into special account the idea of the living as work of art and as part of a kind of art that is not only distributed in time, but in space as well: the experience is like a journey; the different situations come one after the other." A meditation on the relationship between time and artwork is implicit throughout the exhibition. The works selected reflect their historical modes of visualizaton in a loop, a clock, an unending narrative, parapsychological perceptions, a litany of chants and poses with political content, or art history itself, which we have been told but never seen. The process becomes as important, or more, than the result, which in the case of these works consists on the materialization of an action whose duration coincides with the timeframe for the exhibition. Time and its processes create the work, they are the work, along with the audience's reaction, questions, and actions. Eight local and international artists are featured in Experiencia Infinita: Allora & Calzadilla, Diego Bianchi, Elmgreen & Dragset, Dora García, Pierre Huyghe, Roman Ondák, Tino Sehgal, and Judi Werthein.