IP02.3 / 2005

Centre del Carme, Valencia
Rosa Santos Gallery, Valencia

The fire of festivity enters the institution⁶. As a profane ritual and a means of communion, fireworks become an emblem of the creative and destructive power of the collective⁷. The performative explosion disrupts the dominant regime of affects and opens a breach for celebration as an insubordinate force.

6. Mikhail Bakhtin, Rabelais and His World, 1941
7. Georges Didi-Huberman, The Surviving Image, 2002