With the reactivation of the ADN Platform space in Sant Cugat del Vallès, ADN Galeria presents Public hygiene: society as a sick body by Daniel Gasol, curated by Patricia Sorroche, in collaboration with the University of Valencia.Public Hygiene reflects, from a contemporary perspective, on the relationship between legislation, science, and religion that criminalizes, medicalizes, and punishes those who do not comply with the norms of the capitalist system, under the condition of being “upright citizens.”
From the analysis of Vagos y Maleantes (1933-1970) and Peligrosidad Social (1970-1995) codes and laws, the projects examines how both laws addressed the topics of gender, race and social class by trying to manage, regulate and discipline desires and sexual-affective relationships between individuals. In Gasol’s works the archive, the installation, the performatic and audivisual documents mix together. His works come from an intersectional space that unfolds as an artistic-medical-scientific document as many voices were not just studied and displayed as the paradigm of the “not being” and, therefore, “what to be”, but rather their existences were turned into pathologies, which tried to be corrected via treatments, therapies or even imprisonments within a system of social and political control.
