Autumn 2022 at fluent

Calle Luis Hoyos Sainz 2, (int) 
39001, Santander,
Spain.

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Against the backdrop of an economic downward spiral, warlike climate and environmental violence whose uncertain futures keep proving to be another sign of our times, the end of the summer comes to fluent. For the autumn season, we present a new series of projects that we are excited to announce below. These projects also expand through a new selection of publications just arrived to our bookshop:

Georgina Hill. In a Cowslip’s bell I lie.
Exhibition extended until September 30th, 2022.

In a Cowslip’s bell I lie looks at the invisible impact of logistics and how it reveals the structural dimension of life and the systems it circulates through.
In Shakespeare’s the tempest, the character of Ariel is presented as the airiest, a spirit whose voice fluctuates in rhythm and movement. An invisible entity, whose subtle presence shifts the narrative. Aiming at a similar lightness, the two series of sculptures featured in this exhibition confront the commodified to the precarious, being its possible frictions a place for meanings to emerge. This interaction, allows Hill to explore the textural manifestations of large scale power structures and ideologies, how the body encounters material environments and what these indicate about societal constructs.

Adjoa Armah.
<◯><◯>(or less than living more than less than living more than)
Exhibition opening: October 14th
October 14th –– December 31st

<◯><◯>(or less than living more than less than living more than) is a commissioned solo exhibition by Adjoa Armah. The artist uses the exhibition space to explore an interest in how we may develop a black historiography in relation with the temporal consciousness of sand. The proposed display invites the audience to engage with questions that have arisen out of long–term research into how materials witness life, how they can support the (re)telling of historical events, and how the reality of a place is equally defined by what happens there and what is imposed upon it from [removed];

The work centres around a recycled glass hourglass produced in collaboration with artist Sel Kofiga and glassblower Michael Tetteh using sand from Cape Three Points, Ghana. Known as the place on land closest to “nowhere”, which is a location at sea known as Null Island (0°N 0°E), Cape Three Points has 4 European built forts within a 20 km radius and is a site from which we can reflect on the history of European presence on the African continent. The central object of the hourglass is put into correspondence with various objects, images, and responses from thinkers invited by Armah as part of a living form of research.

Aguas Vivas
New commission in the context of Concomitentes.
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Aguas Vivas is the title of a forthcoming commission in the framework of Concomitentes, an initiative by Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso inviting civil society groups to become the citizen–commissioners of an artwork, while ensuing its inherent process of negotiation. Departing from a series of assemblies held at the community of Llanos –a small village in the rural context of Valles Pasiegos– since April 2022, the project engages with the river as a tactic to investigate the ecological, social and political dimensions of hydric resources, infrastructures, knowledge and [removed];

Mediated by fluent’s director Alejandro Alonso Díaz and Sören Meschede, the project is now entering a further research stage where a group of artists is invited to develop research and work with the local vicinity, imagining new forms of interaction between the river and the [removed];