El gest de filmar. El vídeo a la Col·lecció MACBA

Exhibition from the MACBA Collection devoted to video as a form of attention to the real, with three proposals bringing together community recordings, contemporary works and pieces from the donation by Han Nefkens and Pere Portabella.

The exhibition brings together three moments and contexts of video within the Collection of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, a museum of contemporary art. All three proposals share a single idea: to understand the moving image not only as a record, but as a way of paying attention to the real and of giving voice to presences and stories that tend to remain on the margins of official history.

Contrainformació: Video-Nou / Servei de Vídeo Comunitari brings together material that documents the social and political realities of the early years of the Transition, approached from a critical perspective. Here the camera works as a space for dialogue: the communities themselves take part in producing their own image and in building an archive that is at once memory and process.

Ecos. Videos from the donation by the Fundación Han Nefkens y Pere Portabella presents works of contemporary artistic practice that use counter-narrative languages: a more experiential texture of the image, non-linear narration and juxtaposition as a device. The pieces address the intimate, the social and the political, and present video as a place of listening and critical thought.