Pamplona City Council and the 9915 Association of Private Collectors of Contemporary Art in Spain
This project reflects the interest of the collectors of the 9915 Association and the Pamplona City Council in new artistic languages. It does so in a setting such as the Sala de Armas in the Citadel of Pamplona, which contemplates and practices fundamental values for the association: education, research as an activity that generates knowledge and dissemination as a search for new audiences for contemporary art.
The focus of this exhibition is the confluence of the visual and sound dimensions, the two great vectors that condition our perception of the world. The set of artistic practices presented here (sometimes so diverse from each other) explore the possibilities offered by this intersection and participate in an essential quality of the art of our time: interdisciplinarity and hybridization between techniques, formats and expressive languages.
Attention to the richness of paradoxical, poetic, and always fruitful relationships that can be established between sound, image, space, or language determines the selection of works for the exhibition.
The curatorial discourse thus focuses on the possibilities of contemporary audiovisual creation to generate new discourses and new ways of seeing (and relating to) the world.
Art is a line of flight, a space open to other logics, other temporalities, a connection with reality that vindicates the sensorial over the mediation of language and words. For this reason, the discourse of the exhibition also pays special attention to works that allow the spectator to reflect (in an experiential, intuitive, and playful way as well) on space, on his own body, on the exhibition environment that surrounds him. Physical space and time, but also lived space and time: sensation, movement, recollection, experience, memory.
Alicia Ventura - Curator of the exhibition
About the collection
The 9915 Association is concerned and aware of the problems faced by private collectors of contemporary art in our country. Driven by a group of contemporary art collectors, 9915 (Ninety-nine fifteen) was established with the aim of promoting the union of interests of contemporary art collectors and encouraging the training of new collectors, as well as creating the necessary tools to regulate and disseminate this basic activity of the art market in Spain. Normalizing, regulating and professionalizing the activity of private contemporary art collecting and claiming the social value that this activity has will be the fundamental objectives of the new Association. One of the most ambitious initiatives of 9915 is the creation of a large voluntary participation database where private collections are gathered to make them known among the members of the Association and the Institutions dedicated to the study, promotion and exhibition of contemporary art.