November 16–December 12, 2021
Passeig de Grácia, 92
08008 Barcelona
Spain
From November 16 to 18 La Pedrera-Casa Milà hosted the 19th edition of LOOP Fair and a wide programme of talks.
With the participation of 27 international galleries and artists the Fair presented a broad overview of current video creation. Through an exhibition format this video proposals will remain on view at La Pedrera Barcelona until December 12.
Awards
The LOOP Award was given to the artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané for the piece A Dream Dreaming a Dream presented by Esther Schipper Gallery (Berlin). This creation, of infinite duration and dated 2020, is a real-time animation, always similar but also always generated anew, of a dreaming panther wandering through the jungle. It is based on the artist’s ecological perception of the complex webs of interdependence that create reality. The work is acquired by the MACBA Foundation, and becomes part of its collection.
The Roca Village LOOP Acquisition Prize is awarded to the Franco-Algerian artist Katia Kameli for her piece The Storyteller, 2012, 12 minutes, presented by Kulte Gallery (Rabat). The video, filmed at the Royal Theater of Marrakech, explores the power of narratives, and the construction (and reconstruction) of stories in a context marked by a complex past. The work will become part of the LOOP collection, integrated in the MACBA Collection - Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona.
The Jury of this edition was composed of: Claudia Segura (Curator of Exhibition Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona), representing Elvira Dyangani Ose (Director, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona), Andrea Lissoni (Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich), Dirk Snauwaert (Director, WIELS, Brussels), Benjamin Weil (Director, Centro de Arte Moderna de la Fundação Gulbenkian, Portugal) and Daniela Zyman (Artistic Director, TBA21, Vienna and Madrid).
LOOP Talks
The LOOP Talks aimed at a series of conversations, lectures and open discussions around moving image and beyond. Throughout the years, the programme shifted from having a strict focus on the medium specificity to encouraging an open and inclusive reflection on creative processes as well as the social, cultural and economic implication of art at large.
This year’s edition focused on the artists who participated in the Fair, with a series of presentations that brought together international curators and collectors. This way, the talks covered topics from the gender issues, the representation of the body, the multiple ways of being in the world beyond human agency; at the same time, the programme addressed the early days of video art as well as the crossovers between moving image and performance with the participation of different guests like Gary Hill, Gusztáv Hámos, Katja Pratschke, Soledad Gutiérrez, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Isabelle & Jean Conrad Lemaitre, Guillaume de Saint-Seine, Alain Fleischer, Fatma Bucak, Melanie Manchot, Marcella Lista, Jin Suk-Suh and Menene Gras. Soon available in LOOP VIDEOCHANNEL.
LOOP Virtual
LOOP Virtual is a project designed to expand audiences and offer an immersive experience in which to watch the videos presented at the 2021’s Fair.
Through LOOP Virtual you will also get to access Rose Lejeune’s curated section In Time that explores the border between video and performance, a selection of works by Marina Abramović, Sophia Al Maria, American Artist, Dana Awartani, Fatma Bucak, Laura Hindmarsh, Melanie Manchot, Émilie Pitoiset and Alex Reynolds, echoing the theme of the Body developed in the Festival’s program, as well as Curated Virtual Tours by international curators. LOOP Virtual will be open to the public from November 16 to December 12.
LOOP Festival
With more than 250 artists’ projects presented, the LOOP Festival has proposed a reflection on the body as a tool for communication, self-representation and as a catalyst for collective change.
The program included a large number of live proposals and filmic actions in the public space, claiming the presentiality and the shared experience, highlighting also the numerous new video productions, carried out in collaboration with local and international partners.
