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Les faits sont têtus
Alán Carrasco in Berta Caldentey's collection, Locker Room, 9 May - 18 July 2024

Les faits sont têtus: Alán Carrasco in Berta Caldentey's collection

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Les faits sont têtus, Alán Carrasco in Berta Caldentey's collection

Alán Carrasco's third solo exhibition at ADN Galeria is titled Les faits sont têtus. The works displayed for this project -most of them belonging to the collection of Berta Caldentey- question the myths of historical discourses, using documents of the events of the 20th century as raw material.

 

The opening will take place on May 9th at 7:00 p.m. and will be attended by the artist and the collector.

 

In 1951, with Europe still managing its own ruins, Hannah Arendt warned us in "The Origins of Totalitarianism" that the ideal subject for totalitarian domination was not the follower or fanatic of a cause, but rather the one for whom there is no longer a distinction between fact and fiction, between true and false.
Seven decades later, in most media outlets and in many political analyses, the use of concepts such as fake news, alternative facts, or post-truth punctuates our everyday lives through a constant carousel of statements in which both sides accuse each other of muddying reality with lies and nonsense.
In Alán Carrasco's work, there is a specific interest in unraveling some of the strategies and traps commonly employed in the construction of official narratives, but also in finding the invisible threads, sometimes casual, other times plausible, that complicate the directional and linear reading intended to be provided of historical facts.
In the selection of works presented in the exhibition Les faits sont têtus, some of the stratagems used to construct a significant part of the historical-political, institutional, and symbolic narrative of the 20th century are confronted. Alán Carrasco composes with his pieces an itinerary in which he does not hesitate to challenge some of the foundational myths of that discourse, using as raw material documents and other tangible evidence of the events that inspire him.

 

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Works
  • Alán Carrasco, Correr tras el viento, 2022
    Alán Carrasco, Correr tras el viento, 2022
  • Alán Carrasco, Ci stavamo seduti sopra, 2021
    Alán Carrasco, Ci stavamo seduti sopra, 2021
  • Alán Carrasco, Die bleierne Zeit, 2021
    Alán Carrasco, Die bleierne Zeit, 2021
  • Alán Carrasco, La determinación del ser humano puede vencer a la naturaleza, 2024
    Alán Carrasco, La determinación del ser humano puede vencer a la naturaleza, 2024
  • Alán Carrasco, Papel mojado, 2020
    Alán Carrasco, Papel mojado, 2020
  • Alán Carrasco, Simpatico, carino, buono, 2022
    Alán Carrasco, Simpatico, carino, buono, 2022
  • Alán Carrasco, Les faits sont têtus, 2019
    Alán Carrasco, Les faits sont têtus, 2019
  • Alán Carrasco, Animus in consulendo liber [Espíritu libre para decidir]. 1949–2019, 2019
    Alán Carrasco, Animus in consulendo liber [Espíritu libre para decidir]. 1949–2019, 2019
  • Alán Carrasco, I mostri, 2021
    Alán Carrasco, I mostri, 2021
  • Alán Carrasco, Illégitime, nul et non avenu / Null undnichtig, 2020
    Alán Carrasco, Illégitime, nul et non avenu / Null undnichtig, 2020
  • Alán Carrasco, El discreto encanto de la burocracia, 2021
    Alán Carrasco, El discreto encanto de la burocracia, 2021
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