Marco Godoy

Marco Godoy - For you I also fight

Técnica: Neon

Biografía del Artista:

Marco Godoy presents his new series Letras de protesta at ARCO. The phrases presented in this series come from street graffiti and banners from the 15M protest in Madrid. These messages speak to us of creativity and the need to urgently express a way of feeling, from humor, anger or irony, but they speak to us of discontent. They contain social dimensions that are expressed from the urgency of the banner, its language has nothing to do with ideology but with “being together.” In this series, messages are rescued and converted into neon to prevent them from disappearing, making collective expression transform into a gesture that emits light. Marco Godoy's work consists of a set of strategies to make disagreement visible and manage it. He uses the exhibition space as a place linked to specific moments in our social and political context. Based on these situations, he proposes proposals that function as a response. Through visual formats such as video, sculpture and action, he considers the way in which a figure of authority is constructed and legitimised through the use of images, spaces and actions. From how a family is organised to the structure of a State, these relationships speak of how we position ourselves in relation to others, of how these elements are staged, acquiring a degree of theatricality that is presented as scenery. In this sense, the exhibition space becomes a meeting space, a platform from which to seek ways to collaborate with individuals or groups. The exchange, whether visible or not at the end of the process, is an important part of the work. Marco Godoy (Madrid 1986) lives and works between Madrid and London. She has participated in biennials, Liverpool Biennial 2014 and prestigious institutions such as the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Whitechapel, London, all of them in 2015, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin in 2016. In 2018 she presented a solo exhibition at the Sala de Arte Joven thanks to the Primera Fase award: Programa de Producción Artística Comunidad de Madrid-DKV, in addition to participating in "Generaciones" at La Casa Encendida.