Bòlit, the Contemporary Arts Center, and the Girona History Museum organize an exhibition about Girona in the late 1980s and 1990s coinciding with the Fair of St. Narcís

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

The exhibition, curated by Eudald Camps and Jordi Mitjà, will focus on the artists from those years and on those groups of activists who lived on the margins of the official circuits.

Bòlit, the Contemporary Arts Center, and the History Museum of Girona, have co-produced an exhibition about the Girona of the late 1980s and 1990s. The exhibition, Infralocus. The 90s in Girona, a 20-Year Decade, curated by Eudald Camps and Jordi Mitjà, will focus on the artists from those years and on those groups of activists who lived on the margins of the official circuits.

The proposal will open next Saturday, October 26th, 2024, during the Fair of St. Narcís, and will be available until February 9th, 2025.

The exhibition will be divided into four different spaces around the city: Bòlit_LaRambla, Bòlit_PouRodó, Bòlit_StNicolau and the History Museum of Girona.

During the last two decades of the 20th century, Girona was an active, creative city that opened to Europe and to the world and gathered social, artistic and cultural movements. While this Girona was accepted and standardized on an institutional level, it was not like that for the cultural and social actions that did not adhere to the official parameters, and which flowed from the peripheries and the alternative cross-bordering actions, understood across the breadth of the concept.

The word Infralocus from the title has a double reading: a locus is a place and also a character who renounces to the established order. The exhibition is a proposal to give voice to the city’s “own cultural ecosystem” that lived through the leisure places and the groups on the margins in equal measure, all those infraloci, usually bars and clubs that the mainstream culture colonized without control or premeditation.

Several complementary activities will be also available: a collective mural, discussions and lectures about arts and life in the nineties, a series of guided visits by the curators, a literary aperitif and a concert. All these activities will be free and will take place in the spaces surrounding the exhibition.