La tienda del BOE

Based on a critical notion of “machine” formulated by the French philosophers

Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in the late 1960s, this exhibition brings together

some fift\ artists Zho present current forms of resistance coalition and creatiYit\

Mostly linked to the Mediterranean area and the African continent, these artists

emplo\ a Zide Yariet\ of expressiYe languages and media including draZings

paintings performance installations and Yideo to approach an eTuall\ broad range

of themes, such as the need to place the defense of commonality at the center of

political and artistic reÁection and practice the Yindication of forms of knoZledge

Zithout financial ambition and the denunciation of the deYastating enYironmental

and social effects of certain economic practices

Under the title machinations the exhibition shoZs hoZ the Zorld of art

constitutes an exceptional field of stud\ for gaining a deeper understanding of the

present through 'eleu]e and *uattari’s philosophical ideas here reYisited b\

contemporar\ artists This exhibition is one more sign of the 0useo 1acional Centro

de Arte 5eina 6ofta’s interest in exploring the relations betZeen art and thought

6ince  the museum has applied a model of collaboratiYe research that has

generated dialogues and s\nergies among multiple proMects both its oZn and those

initiated outside of it 6upporting this decentrali]ed online practice in a search for a

conÁuence of Yoices has been a demanding challenge that moreoYer expands the

idea of ´museumµ opening it up to the present and to the debate on reality.