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X-VILLE
Arts Santa Monica
28 May-22 June 2015
Loop Festival

Opening Thursday 28 May 20h

jordi COLOMER X VILLE
































At the beginning of ‘X-VILLE’ a young woman tells us: “Our time is a time of utopias. There are many: the American ‘Way of Life’, Communism or Human Rights. They all have the capacity to mobilize the masses”. The film is inspired by various texts by philosopher and utopian architect Yona Friedman, specifically by his book, ‘Realizable Utopias’ (1974), a work that promotes alternative forms of organizing big cities, as collective answers to a dissatisfaction. Colomer’s film is constructed through collective situations, recreating images of alternative ways of organisation for the Metropolis.

ordi Colomer is the winner of the first edition of the production prize for a video-based work launched by LOOP , la Xarxa de Centres i Espais d’Arts Visuals de Catalunya and Arts Santa Mònica. In LOOP Barcelona 2015 , the artist is premiering his work ‘X-VILLE’ on Thursday 28 May 20h at Arts Santa Mònica, a film that revolves around the utopias and their capacity to bring crowds together.

‘X VILLE’ has been produced by: LOOP Barcelona, Xarxa de Centres d’Arts Visuals de Catalunya, Arts Santa Mònica, Jardins-Fabriques [Annecy], Generalitat de Catalunya, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and CO producciones [Barcelona-Paris];
in collaboration with: ESAAA [Annecy],  Fondation Salomon pour l’Art Contemporain [Annecy], Col.lecció Banc Sabadell, Frac Languedorc-Roussillon and Villeneuve la série [Grenoble].