The 21st century has opened up a broad and complex vision for us, a space where the most diverse layers of knowledge, sociology, economics, politics, and culture overlap and intersect.
The 21st century has opened up a broad and complex vision for us, a space where the most diverse layers of knowledge, sociology, economics, politics, and culture overlap and intersect.
We can no longer be mere spectators, because these realities run through us, impose themselves, and compel us to take a stance; in other words, there is no longer room for neutrality.
We have titled this curatorial project INTERSECTIONS because we see our reality crossed by vectors that, thanks to the artistic expressions presented here, help us permeate the confluences, interferences, complements, and differences that affect it.
While the first approach is that of two planes crossing one another to generate common ground, it is also the ever-open possibility of looking at one another not through what differentiates us but through what makes us equal, and on this premise important achievements have been reached in recent decades; one need only look at access to knowledge, information, health, or social welfare as conquests of humanity.
But outside this field where social achievements benefiting good living intersect, there are vast areas where exclusion predominates, along with a difference generated by the very fear of losing the gains already made; borders that open to goods without any restriction whatsoever while closing to the movement of people from the periphery for reasons of ethnicity, gender, religion, ideology, or economic means.
We can also take an etymological approach and say that these are the common spaces between two or more sections, which, transposed onto the social plane, call us to establish connections between different human groups, whether by their origin, their thinking, their culture, their language, or their worldview.
Without a doubt, technology has been a decisive factor in making us, in the 21st century, able to see ourselves as close to one another as in no other period in history, walking the streets of cities we have never set foot in, hearing languages we have never learned, tasting flavors and smelling scents entirely new to us, and, most importantly, making connections with people we are not even certain we will ever meet face to face.
It is the magic of simultaneity, of social intersections, of far and near, of compressed time, of live broadcasting, of overwhelming information, of followers and influencers; it is the title of the 2023 Oscar-winning film, which could not have put it better: "Everything Everywhere All at Once"