Cristina Lucas. E-conmotion

Exhibition by Cristina Lucas at the Museu Tàpies in Barcelona tracing the four industrial revolutions and their relationship with power, history and art.

The exhibition traces a journey through the four industrial revolutions that have transformed the economy, culture and forms of colonialism. Cristina Lucas argues that technical and economic progress is not neutral, but a field of symbolic and material dispute, and that images take part in shaping the world.

Using methacrylate triptychs made from the materials of each stage (coal, oil, silicon and microchips), Cristina Lucas builds a material narrative of history. The visit opens with the piece El anciano de los días (W. Blake), a steam pipe, and continues with the audiovisual installation Cinturó de reacció en cadena, which offers a brief history of anthropocentrism.

Fundació Ventós collaborates on the set-up by creating scents that accompany the works. The idea of revolution is thus carried over to a sensory and emotional plane, as olfactory memory.