Antoni Muntadas

Throughout his career, Antoni Muntadas, who conceives of his works as "artefacts" (in the anthropological sense of the term, i.e. things that can be viewed in different ways depending on the context and the moment they are presented), has addressed topics such as the changing relationship between the public and the private, the naturalization of the logic of consumerism, the cultural homogenisation processes imposed by globalisation, the use of architecture as a tool for legitimating political and economic power, the importance of the mass media in the expansion of financial capitalism, the functioning of the artistic ecosystem or the exploitation of the fear of the "other" as a strategy for social control.

Entre/Between, which is structured around nine blocks or "thematic constellations" – Microspaces, Media landscape, Spheres of power, Public territories, Spectacle Spaces, The construction of fear, Scopes of translation, The archive and Systems of art – attempts to offer a complex, exhaustive and non-linear reading of Muntadas' artistic activity. The show includes some of his earliest pieces, which focus more on bodily and sensorial experience than on conceptual reflection, and various pieces that reveal autobiographical information about the artist, and also some of his most emblematic projects, such as Exposición-Exhibition(1985-1987), The Board Room (1987),The File Room(1994) and a selection of works included in his series On Translation (1995-2011). In addition, Muntadas has created a project specifically for this exhibition, entitled Situación 2011. This piece, which takes as its point of departure an intervention he did at the Museum when it was inaugurated, critically examines the expansion and enlargement process that the main international museum institutions have undergone in recent years.