Adrià Julià, Professor of Photography at the Institute of Fine Art (KMD), will be presenting work in relation to the shows at Miró Foundation, Barcelona and Tabakalera, San Sebastian.

Adrià Julià’s exhibition departs from a family collection of photographs of Romanesque churches in Catalonia as a means of addressing the dissemination and traffic of cultural heritage and the spectacularization of conflict and landscape. The exhibit invites to decipher the marginal notes that facilitate the analysis of the overlaps and frictions between historical narratives and their mediatization, resulting from their transfer from one medium to another, the translation from one language to another, or relocation from one country into another.

The artist establishes a methodology for rereading history against the grain through observing and identifying a series of details in events that seem to be unconnected: the buying and selling Romanesque artistic and architectural works by American museums and collections; the reverse attempt to establish American football in Catalonia in the 90s; the recurrence of the number 69; or the ascent and descent of staircases... such elements provide the view with certain clues to understand the political implications that emerge from artistic exchanges and cultural shifts, as well as their effects on the social landscape.

Bio: Adrià Julià was born in Barcelona, Spain and lives and works in Los Angeles and Bergen. His most recent solo exhibitions have been at Miró Foundation, Barcelona; Project Art Center, Dublin; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; LAXART, Los Angeles; Artists Space, New York; Insa Art Space, Seoul; Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid and La Virreina, Barcelona.

He has been in group exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum, New York; Museu Reina Sofia, Madrid; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Lyon Bennial, Lyon; Generali Foundation, Vienna; 7th Mercusur Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brasil; Akademie der Künste, Berlin. He presented performances at 29th São Paulo Bienal and Galeria Soledad Lorenzo. Adrià Julià has received grants from the American Academy in Berlin, Botín Foundation, California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists, Art Matters, American Center Foundation, “La Caixa” Fellowship program, and in 2002 he was awarded the Altadis Prize.

Through installations, cinema, video, photography and publications Julià examines the means of representation and reception of events of personal and collective historical dimensions, and the ways in which they negotiate memory, resistance, displacement, and survival.

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