Courses
May - February 2013
ALLEGED OPPOSITES:
ON THE PUBLIC SPHERE, ART AND THE CLINIC
A research working group based on a critique of the analytical and art-therapeutic devices implemented at MACBA since 2002
The working group is led by Montserrat Rodríguez and Eva Marxen, with the participation of the artists Ignasi Aballí and Dora García, the psychoanalyst Shula Eldar and the anthropologist Ángel Martínez.
Montserrat Rodríguez's approach is the result of her research into the mechanics of language creation processes, the consistency of artistic production and the logic underlying social ties, arising from psychoanalytic practice with users or patients of mental health centers in Barcelona and its surrounding areas. This process began in 2002.
Eva Marxen's project is based on the use of art therapy with a psychoanalytic slant and an anthropological understanding. It began in 2003 at educational centers in the Raval with teenagers who had been labeled 'at risk of social exclusion.' The project started with the creation of the necessary conditions (Winnicott's 'potential space') for subjective work aimed at maintaining the capacity for symbolization.
