The exhibition provides viewers with the chance to embark on a possible journey of knowledge through reading by showing different labyrinths and tracing a path that leads from the realm of myth to current communication networks, passing through other forms of transmitting knowledge such as biological structures created by Nature.
Francisco Jarauta is the curator of this exhibition, which features twenty or so works including lithographs, oils, drawings, documentaries, video projections, installations and vinyls by writers and artists from Spain and abroad. These works give visitors an insight into the world of reading and knowledge and are arranged along a route that brings together in the same space the labyrinth painted in the peristyle of the House of Lucretius in Pompeii and the ground plan of the palace of Knossos in Crete (reproduced on the wall), Llull’s Opuscula Varia, Julio Cortázar’s Rayuela (published in English as Hopscotch) and the hippocampus drawn by Ramón y Cajal in 1901, in addition to lithographs and works by Jaume Plensa (Barcelona, 1955), Robert Morris (Kansas City, 1931), Robert Smithson (Passaic 1938–Amarillo 1973), Adolph Gottlieb (New York, 1903–1974), Constant (Amsterdam, 1920–Utrecht, 2005), Rosó Cusó (Barcelona, 1965) and Charles Sandison (Haltwhistle, Scotland, 1969), among others.
The exhibition also includes installations which have been adapted and built in situ for the occasion, such as Postcapital by Daniel García Andújar (Almoradí, 1966), a tower constructed from empty shelving, tables and computers; the online installation The File Room by Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona, 1942); The Workv03 by Imogen Stidworthy (Liverpool, 1963); the interactive sound and visual installation The Oracle. Tell Me A Secret by Gema Álava (Madrid, 1973) and Josué Moreno (Jaén, 1980); and the spectacular interactive installation from the Museum at Herculaneum.
The exhibition ends with a TwitWall where visitors can comment on what has interested them the most. Each of the works is identified on the digital wall with a hashtag # that indicates to which work each comment refers. Users can thus find specific online information about each piece at once or view the varied mosaic of the physical general panel.
