Jorge Conde presents a selection of recent works at Blanca Soto Gallery in Madrid_

Title: "Here and Now. Fraud"

Dates: November 13th - December 13th

Venue: Blanca Soto Gallery. C/ Almadén, 13. 28014 Madrid

Curated by Imanol Marrodán

Opening: Thursday November 13th, 8pm.

I hereby confess I am a mass-man, 2014

"The Overcrowded Mind" Video Is Almost Ready! _

The Overcrowded Mind (2014), video still

Jorge Conde exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art in Tarragona (Spain)_

Jorge Conde exhibits "Ten Desert Findings", a hybrid video, painting, drawing & photo installation, as part of the 2014 Contemporary Art Biennial exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art (MAMT) in Tarragona (Spain).

Ten Desert Findings (2013-14) hybrid installation

TST Desert Findings (9:56). Video stills

THE PROJECT_

<TST> is a work-in-progress project which aims to explore the idea of technological utopia and how it affects the landscape and our behaviour as consumers. To do so, I focus my research on motor vehicles of all versions and purposes. I present the automobile as a source of endless emotions and experiences, a “scarred” machine which incarnates the technological utopia of its time and confirms the supremacy of a global socioeconomic model now in conflict. As it can be seen, I search for shabby, useless, scrapped vehicles in order to highlight their built-in obsolescence quality, a widely used strategy in contemporary market economies which promises ephemeral well-being and serves the purpose of creating new needs by constantly putting pressure on individuals and altering the landscape.

<TST> is a collaborative, expanded evolution of Everyday Impostor (2009-11), a photo-project exhibited in PHotoEspaña (PHE’11), the International Photography and Visual Arts Festival held in Madrid (Spain).
<TST> is a visual arts project created with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Culture (MECD) and with a grant awarded in 2013 by the Catalan Department of Culture (CoNCA).

THE INSTALLATION_

TST – Ten Desert Findings  (2013) aims to reflect on technological utopianism and some abuses consumer society commits on its behalf. To do so, I choose to employ a deceiving, nearly preposterous strategy: several scale model vehicles were placed in different spots of a vast desert landscape, where they seemed out of context or could even be interpreted as an act of aggression towards nature. This video was filmed in various locations of the “Bardenas Reales” of Navarre desert in Northern Spain, the largest desert area in continental Europe and a widely used setting for shooting automobile and technology commercials.

In addition, TST – Ten Desert Findings (2013) establishes a dialogue between the audiovisual experience and the video’s making-of process. This is achieved by confronting the video itself with a series of 10 photographs that were taken during the shooting. All texts included in the photos refer to various concepts and stereotypes commonly used by automobile companies in their ads.

Opening: Friday 11th of July, 7:30 pm.

Venue: MAMT (Museum of Modern Art Modern) C/ Santa Anna, 8 - Tarragona (SPAIN).

Exhibition Dates: July 11th - September 1st 2014.

Jorge Conde presents his most recent projects at Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona_

Jorge Conde presents two of his recent multimedia, collaborative projects, 

"Any Place Is Another Place" and "The Scarred Transporter",

at Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona.

Date: Wed April 9th

Time: 6 pm - 9 pm

Place: Arts Santa Mònica Center for the Arts

La Rambla, 7 - 08002 Barcelona

Link to Arts Santa Mònica (SPANISH)

Jorge Conde's work in OBRA ABIERTA 2014_

< TST > project (2010-2014)

Jorge Conde, finalist at "Caja de Extremadura" International Visual Arts Prize, exhibits his work in OBRA ABIERTA 2014 and participates in the Gala and Charity Auction organized by UNICEF under the motto "Emergency in Syria".

Exhibition_

Opening: Friday March 28th, 8 pm.

Venue: "Las Claras" Cultural Center, Plasencia (Spain)

Dates: March 27th - April 23rd, 2014

Gala & Charity Auction_

Venue: Alfonso VIII Hotel, Plasencia (Spain)

Dinner: Friday March 28th, 10 pm.

< TST > project website

Jorge Conde shows "The Chet Test" in Palma (Isle of Majorca)_

Jorge Conde exhibits "The Chet Test" v. 2.0 in Palma (Isle of Majorca, Spain). By using a "fraudulent" strategy, this hybrid work challenges the observer, giving him/her the chance of changing his/her role in order to proactively participate in an artistic experiment. This work uses maritime transport as the starting point of a deeper reflection on the concept of "truth" in today's knowledge society and the reliability of contemporary mass media and free-access information sources.

2013 City of Palma "Antoni Gelabert" Visual Arts Award.

Casal Solleric (Palma). January 20th - March 2nd, 2014.

"THE CHET TEST" v.2.0 (2013)

Photo-textual Installation View

Opening & Exhibition Views

Jorge Conde presents his "TST" expanded video installation in CEART Fuenlabrada (Madrid)_

OPENING: January 9th, 8 pm

The Scarred Transporter (TST) is a work-in-progress, interdisciplinary, collaborative project which aims to explore the idea of technological utopia and how it affects the landscape and our behaviour as consumers. To do so, we focus our research on motor vehicles of all versions and purposes. We present the automobile as a source of endless emotions and experiences, a “perfectly scarred” machine which incarnates the technological utopia of its time and confirms the supremacy of a global socioeconomic model. As it can be seen, we search for and photograph shabby, useless, scrapped vehicles in order to highlight their built-in obsolescence quality, a widely used strategy in contemporary market economies which promises ephemeral well-being and serves the purpose of creating new needs by constantly putting pressure on individuals and altering the landscape.

Nonetheless, it is hard to think that in a context of severe crisis, built-in obsolescence can be a desirable or even sustainable strategy. Rather, it seems more appropriate to sometimes go back to the old repair-reuse-and-recycle strategy applied to obsolete items, including technology. The economic uncertainty many countries have been facing in the past few years, along with the misery that for decades has plagued vast areas of the world, demand from all of us a more responsible use of technology and more ethical production and consumption practices.

TST is a collaborative, expanded evolution of Everyday Impostor (2009-11), a photo-project exhibited in PHotoEspaña’11, the International Photography & Visual Arts Festival held in Madrid (Spain).

Won't you love me this way?, 2011-13 (installation view)

Video installation views