SXSW London’s Art Program Spotlights Spain’s ‘Underrated’ Contemporary Art Scene
SXSW London returns for its second edition on June 1–6, taking over more than 20 venues around the Trueman Brewery in Shoreditch and expanding its programming beyond technology, business, and music to include a visual-art focus. Curated by Patrick Moore, former director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the art program is titled “Spain in Transmission: New Digital Work” and aims to highlight Spain’s “underrecognized” contemporary art scene. The program features Spanish artists Enrique Agudo, Filip Custic, Jesús Moratiel, and Marina Núñez, alongside American artist Molly Gochman, who is bringing her Dispersed Geographies installation from New York to London. Works address themes including identity, borders, humanity, and memory, with Agudo’s four-channel installation You Are Beautiful using 3-D animation and real-time processing to construct a “non-figurative self-portrait” from personal digital archives.
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