José Damasceno

Damasceno accepted the challenge proposed by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía of conceiving a project that interacts not only with its space but for the first time to do it with the public and make them share his inquiries, in such a way that new contexts and dialogues are generated and the public space is activated as a place of artistic creation and thought. Coordenadas y apariciones is a project where the artist poses a circuit of different interventions designed for public spaces and places of transit in the building -corridors, stairs, garden, patio, facade, the shop and library- by way of direct dialogue with the spectator who travels outside the exhibition frame. Each of the installations suggested by the artist for this exhibition has its own trajectory, an evolution and a history that concludes the moment of its installation in the space, as well as the invitation that is made to the spectator to reflect on what happens in the coordinates where they are located, and to question the spaces and moving throughout the Museo. This project thus becomes an opportunity to rethink places, routes and positions, as well as the location of art and its relationship with spectators.