Prelude. Poetic Intention 2024

The latest episode of Colección MACBA. Prelude. Poetic Intention  calls upon the subject as an agent and protagonist in its own story. The curatorial changes currently being made to Prelude. Poetic Intention, the MACBA Collection exhibition curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose alongside Antònia Maria Perelló, Claudia Segura and Patricia Sorroche, address new narratives and forms of enunciation; as a result, they significantly alter the structure of an exhibition that already invited visitors to create their own route and to connect with the artworks and their poetic intention.   This approach explores new dialogues around time, language, modernity and the subject, largely through works acquired in recent years that seek new spaces in which to coexist alongside other works in the collection, but also through pieces entering the museum for the first time to appropriate it, thus making its story and tempo more permeable. The artists joining the collection: Adrián Balseca, Danica Dakić, Younès Rahmoun, Katia Kameli, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Daniel G. Andújar, Antoni Llena, Mireia Sallarès, Sinéad Spelman, Cabello/Carceller, Pepe Espaliú, Miguel Benlloch, Lenora de Barros, Ariadna Guiteras, Ramon Guillén-Balmes, Susy Gómez, Eulàlia Valldosera, Lucia Nogueira, Lola Lasurt, Lara Fluxà, Rosemarie Trockel, Carmen Calvo, Ana Prada, Eva Lootz, Charo Pradas, Helena Vinent, Eva Fàbregas and Teresa Solar Abboud. Other works by Dora García, Marcel Broodthaers, Francesc Torres, Antoni Tàpies and Lucía C. Pino will also be included. In line with the intention of developing specific projects that propose new ways of occupying and inhabiting the museum’s spaces, Eva Fàbregas’s new project, Oozing (2023–24) – coproduced with the Fundación Botín – will join the installation Una pared (2022–24), by Luz Broto, a work in progress that begins with the opening of the exhibition and, in some way, will close the exhibition in 2025.