Bodies that don’t matter begins with an uncomfortable question: which bodies have been represented, and through whose gaze? Is a journey through works from the museum collections of the Xarxa, organised into six areas. Each one can be explored independently, but all are the same reflection on the subjectivity of migrant bodies, with or without awareness of the migration.
Images don’t speak for themselves: they respond to the questions we ask them in every context. Based on the impossible neutrality of a museum, the curatorial project Nothing Is What It Seems proposes readings on power and dissent. It invites the observer to interpret and decide between exercising power and the art that has been critical of it.
Throughout history, those in power have used fear to intimidate and control the population. Beasts and Bestiaries traces, from the Graeco-Roman world to more recent art, the presence of fantastic animals that invite reflection or give shape to metaphors of good and evil. It is a thematic journey through their iconography beyond chronologies, techniques, and borders.