On February 9, 2024, the URIBITARTE40 Hall opened the doors to its first individual exhibition with the work of Jorge Isla, a grant holder at the production center in 2023, titled “Material control, intangible control”. Until March 10.
Jorge Isla’s art examines the economic, social and political mechanisms of contemporary society by subverting their status by means of dichotomies such as reality & fiction, cause & effect, and presence & absence.
Material Control, Intangible Control shows the latest productions of the artista and it is structured around a large installation and a set of seven works that revolve around this discursive core. The project reflects on issues such as the parameters to recognise and award the work of artists, the price and value of the work of art; and concepts such as the idea of presentation and representation or binomials such as public-private, visible-invisible, and the copy-the original.
In the same way that the work of art is absorbed by the consumer society as yet another material product, or the work of artists is recognised as extra-artistic values—such as the price and positioning on the market—, Isla establishes a parallel in the exhibition room that further removes his artistic proposals from the conventional norms, the usual exhibition formats or the noble materials of the works. His installation, sculptural or pictorial research is focused on practices such as appropriation or the use of poor materials in the crafting of his proposals, in an endeavour to find new meanings and signifiers.
EXHIBITION DATA SHEET
Title: Material Control, Intangible Control.
Artist: Jorge Isla (Huesca, 1992)
Venue: BilbaoArte Foundation, Hall URIBITARTE40 (Paseo de Uribitarte, 40)
Dates: 9 February, 2024 – 10 March, 2024
Opening hours: From Tuesday to Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Sundays and holidays from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Jorge Isla (Huesca, 1992) lives and works in Bilbao. Graduated in audiovisual communication from San Jorge University, has a Master’s Degree in Artistic Production from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, and a Master’s Degree in Authored Photography Projects from the Escuela Lens in Madrid.
His art examines the economic, social and political mechanisms of contemporary society by subverting their status by means of dichotomies such as reality & fiction, cause & effect, and presence & absence. It represents a set of ideas based on the concepts of borders, reinterpretation and resignification as the conceptual object from research using mixed mediums – writing, creation images, video and installation – according to the nature of each project.
OPENING PROGRAMME
Opening and public presentation
Date: Friday 9 February
Time: 7.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m.
Free entrance
Guided visit with the artist
Fecha: Saturday 10 February
Hora: 12:30 pm
Length: 40 min.
Free entrance
FILM SCREENING
The Price of Everything (2018), by Nathaliel Kahn
Date: Thursday 15 February
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Length: 1 hour and 35 min.
Language: VOSE (Original version subtitled in Spanish)
Entrance free of charge subject to available seating
GUIDED VISITS
Guided visits for the general public in Spanish and Basque, accessible for the hearing impaired. Guided visit simultaneously in Spanish sign language and spoken.
Dates: Wednesday 14 February (Spanish), 21 February (Basque)
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Length: 45 min.
Entrance free of charge subject to available seating
ARTIST MEET-UP
A round table at a square table
Participants: Victoria Ascaso, Adrian Castañeda, Jorge Isla, MawaTres
Date: Thursday 29 February
Time: 7:00 pm
Length: 1 hour.
Entrance free of charge subject to available seating