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鈥淎ll that we know is our own impression, and all that we are is an exterior impression鈥�. Fernando Pessoa

The exhibition sets forth a constructive, transversal reading of the creative processes of different generations of artists and their research on the concept of portrait.

The objective is to find common points and unexpected interpretations of works, often including very different ones. On the one hand we have the contemporary art works of the Es Baluard Collection and on the other, the works of the BEEP Electronic Art Collection, the vast majority of which are interactive. The latter represent one of the most innovative expressions of contemporary creation, characterised by introducing new paradigms such as interactivity and participation.

It will be almost impossible to compare such diverse stages and styles and confront works by Picasso, 惭颈谤贸 or 叠补谤肠别濒贸 with the robotic and electronic art pieces of artists such as Lug谩n, Marcel.l铆 础苍迟煤苍别锄 or Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Our aim is to approach the portrait from an anthropological perspective, because these faces represent us at a certain moment in history.

Moreover, whilst until now in some way, in artistic practice the portrait has been the representation of an absence, with electronic and digital art this absence is reassessed thanks to the constructive, enriching presence of the public during the creative process.

The exhibition seeks to establish a dialogue between works in different media. The dialogues may arise from common interpretations, similitudes, subliminal analogies or be merely alluded dialogues, which can push the public towards a creative reading of the works. We aspire to break the immovable fourth wall between the contemporary art public who are accustomed to touching electronic artworks and make them perceive other nuances of interpretation in traditional works. The route through the exhibition is laid out as a continuum, in which visitors will be able to perceive similitudes or resemblances which, in the exhibition space, unfurl in an open, rhizomatic way.