Lucía Imaz King

Space - the way we articulate it, is a method of organising the world, constructing it as the ‘real’. Space is not a container in which we dwell; space is made for and by humans. It also becomes political when space and place are a question of allocation. From a relationship between continents that, in the last century that was structured by history, the 21st century transports us into a ‘depthless horizontality of immediate connections’ (Doreen Massey, 2005 p.81): the prevalence of AI, 24-hour finance systems, instantaneity, the proliferation of social media networks, the collapse of spatial barriers leads to the annihilation of space by time. From an imagining of a ‘global’ space comes the immediacy of a single present, a present that spans continents, and carries assumptions of an easy and seamless multi-culturalism. Yet at the same time, in debates on immigration, we are stuck in an archaic system of securitised boundaries and national protectionism. (Massey ibid)

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To be able to question our relationship with ‘local’ and ‘global’, to prioritise a politics of trans-local artistic friendships, the 'Delve' artists’ group excavated what is impossible to experience about the present by activating the fantastic. This does not entail providing a framework in which ‘the fantastic’ will appear. Instead, the show positions the artworks themselves in which the spaces they create become alternate realities of the fantastic.

A research events program coinciding with the exhibition included 5 artists’ talks and an interdisciplinary dialogue, open to the public, between literary theorist, Patricia García García and artist/curator, Lucía I. King.