Hacer el Fracaso
Raul Valverde: Failure is the path to success, 2010. Cloth, table, various glass objects, instructions on wall. Dimensions Variable.
Hacer el Fracaso
July 6 – September 23, 2012
La Casa Encendida
Ronda de Valencia 2 – 28012 Madrid
Curated by Daniel Cerrejón
Hacer el fracaso (Making Failure) is an exhibition about the impact that reflections on the idea of failure have had on modern thinking. In theory, failure is a concept that does not have an autonomous existence because it is impossible to dissociate from its positive aspect: success. The idea of success shapes our society and dictates the way we view the world and relate to others. But success is not only the expression of the dominant ideology, hiding all other attitudes as failures; it is also one of the forms of self-government that society imposes on us. Failure is what defines us. To recognize failure as separate from the dynamics of success is to recognize the possibility of alterity. “Making failure” is a must.
“Making failure” not only opens the door to a different subjectivity but allows us to decipher the established code. So this is not about the failure we are doomed to experience when seeking success, but about the failure that operates outside the established framework, according to its own rules. The strategy is always different. As opposed to the rigidity of the norm, failure is multiple. The exhibition discourse charts the rich variety of attitudes. The result is a diverse array of attitudes ranging from aesthetic failure to social failure.
Hacer el fracaso (making failure), curated by Daniel Cerrejón for Inéditos 2012,opened today at La Casa Encendida in Madrid.
Featuring work by David Bestué, Chus Cortina, Julio Falagán, Carla Farrén, Raúl Gómez Valverde, Fermín Jiménez Landa, Guillermo Mora, Jaume Pitarch, Wilfredo Prieto, Ignacio Uriarte, and Isidoro Valcárcel Medina.