This intervention is part of the Geysers program at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, curated by Montse Badia.
Cristina Lucas’ work explores the power mechanisms that determine our lives. Currently, her interest is focused on the fracture between society and nature and the urgent issues arising from climate change. Based on the observation that the elements and minerals present on our planet are also present in our body, the artist begins to investigate and work artistically with these elements (zinc, magnesium, iron, etc.). In her research at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, she follows the trail of one of them, cobalt, an element with which pigments are created (the well-known cobalt blue), also present in our body as a component of vitamin B12 and, finally, a key mineral in the electrical and technological industries. In the museum, the artist finds a work that perfectly synthesizes this point of intersection based on cobalt: Mural for IBM (1978) made by Joan Miró and Joan Gardy Artigas, with colors that include cobalt blue.
March 16, 2023 (12pm)
Performative lecture 16/3/2023
