{"id":7254,"date":"2013-01-07T04:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T04:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/2013\/01\/07\/perplexity-in-the-abyss-the-nipple\/"},"modified":"2013-01-07T04:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T04:54:00","slug":"perplexity-in-the-abyss-the-nipple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/perplexity-in-the-abyss-the-nipple\/","title":{"rendered":"Perplexity in the abyss: \u201cThe nipple speech performance\u201d by Gabriel Peric\u00e1s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-7205\" src=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pericas_cun_as.jpg\" alt=\"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The nipple speech performance\u00e2\u20ac\u009d de Gabriel Peric\u00c3\u00a1s_foto: Pere Pratdesaba\" align=\"left\" width=\"670\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pericas_cun_as.jpg 670w, https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pericas_cun_as-592x400.jpg 592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/> No doubt you will have noticed the trend in shoes this autumn-winter season, shoes with wedges, trainers with wedges, elegant shoes with wedges, suede shoes with wedges, boots and ankle boots with wedges, all sorts of shoes, all with wedges. To my utter perplexity Espai 13 in the Fundaci\u00f3 Mir\u00f3 has joined the trend with the exhibition \u201cThe Nipple Speech Performance\u201d by Gabriel Peric\u00e1s, in this season\u2019s cycle of exhibitions, curated by David Armengol. This season is definitely all about wedges.<\/p>\n<p>Wedges serve to adjust, to fix something that is out of kilter, that doesn\u00b4t fit, in particular, to hold something that won\u2019t stay in its normal place. If we take a look around us we\u2019ll find millions of things to adjust. Don\u2019t worry. Gabriel Peric\u00e1s makes a catalogue of wedges all with their own story to tell. This personal history is very important, because, in general when something is out of kilter we look at the thing, not at the wedge. But Peric\u00e1s looks at the wedges, and wedges tell stories. <\/p>\n<p>Just like the penguins in Madagascar, the work of Peric\u00e0s develops, making a subject out of a mere detail. Having been secondary characters, the penguins were given their own series; wedges (not those of shoes) from doors all across Barcelona, having been the great overlooked, have been made into an art exhibition. The same occurs with the phenomenon that Peric\u00e1s wants to hypnotize us with: \u2019the nipple slip speech\u2019, where the talk no longer interests us, the only thing that captivates us is the glimpse of a breast that one catches when a pretty girl is talking in public and the strap of her rather low cut dress slips down. Gabriel Peric\u00e1s likes girls\u2019 breasts, undoubtedly, we\u2019d already seen them in his pieces and now we see them again, and they also, obviously, become a subject.  <\/p>\n<p>So what do breasts and wedges have in common? Together they tell a story, that is somehow or other resumed in one of the pieces in the exhibition, the video animation, with drawings by Perich, in which a man looks at a woman\u00b4s cleavage and then follows her, entering through a door that goes neither in nor out, to go up a slope where on seeing the abyss, he jumps and traverses another door, that is yet another abyss, because it goes neither in nor out. In reality, each piece summarises the others, which though fragmentary are not as such unconnected, so much as conceptually and formally related. Between the abyss and fetishism, seduction and vandalism. <\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll get the message when you see a piece of perfect (perfect!) marble, the first pubis in Spanish film, in an abyss that is a super zoom that blurs the image until it looks like an expressionist painting in autumnal, end-of-the-world tones, though be warned, the artist would be horrified to think someone might see similarities with a Rothko.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition can be visited until 10 February 2013; I\u2019m waiting until 24 January when the artist will do a performance within the framework of the exhibition, in which he will no doubt tell us yet another truth or lie about his work, about the processes, details and interruptions of the discourse in which he embroils us each time.  You can find more detailed information about the exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/fundaciomiro-bcn.org\/espai13_actual.php?exposicion=4675&#038;idioma=6\">here<\/a> and also about David Armengol\u2019s programme. The curator proposes perplexity and dislocation as a point of departure, and now the artist gives us a wedge, to adjust what can\u00b4t be adjusted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt you will have noticed the trend in shoes this autumn-winter season, shoes with wedges, trainers with wedges, elegant shoes with wedges, suede shoes with wedges, boots and ankle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1271,"featured_media":7205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6783],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Perplexity in the abyss: \u201cThe nipple speech performance\u201d by Gabriel Peric\u00e1s &#8211; 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