Texto extraído de la página web www.no-place.me / Extracted from www.no-place.me
"In Utopia, Thomas More sketches a picture of an attractive and compelling world, a place we want, and we can’t have. A No place, denied when we’d switch our allegiance from reality to a fantasy. Because the fantasy of the future cannot be sold to us as a place in which we must reside, we are forced to dream.
This sort of unrealistic Utopia in its true meaning of no-place, still retains its political function as an ideal: a loadstone to guide us and a frame within which to imagine
Art is a motor of change, and the problem of today’s art world is not a lack of rigorous analysis, or a necessity for the revelation of the “truth,” but instead the need for a radical imagination.
Without utopian thinking we are constrained by the tyranny of the possible. Let’s experience an alternative reality, this is what good art does, is what Thomas More’s Utopia does.
As the size, speed, and form of the art market has accelerated in the 21st century, is it time to rethink the way the art world is, and the way we would like it to be. Under this motivation, a group of 4 galleries join efforts to begin a survey that explore new ways of collaboration and new platforms to make more powerful our task of bringing art to a broader audience.
If we want to rethink the future, we have to stimulate imagination, and for this it is far better to take people on a journey, to start ourselves a journey..."
