The Mayoral Gallery recovers the work of Eulàlia Grau with the "Ethnographies" series

Almost a decade after MACBA dedicated the Eulàlia Grau exhibition to her. I have never painted golden angels, Mayoral recovers the work of one of the most committed pop artists of her time. The exhibition can be visited from November 24, 2022 to January 12, 2023.

Under the title Eulàlia Grau. I have never painted golden angels, the exhibition presents a monograph with seven pieces from the Ethnographies series in which the artist Eulàlia Grau denounced the submission, injustice and repression to which society was subjected in the final years of the late Franco regime. Thanks to the use of materials taken from the written press to make a critique of capitalism, mass consumerism, masculinity and dictatorship, Grau became a leading artist in sociological art, which provoked an alternative look, rebellious and, above all, free.

As Assumpta Bassas writes in the curatorial text: "Hers is a painting that reactivates the viewer's sleepy eye and spurs him to go beyond the screens that trap him. Perhaps today's cage is not silence , but rather the chatter of so many words uprooted from empathy and compassion for the other. Cultivating the rebellion of the personal gaze, as Eulàlia did in the Ethnographies, remains a recommended practice to stand up to voracity with which fashionable discourses threaten to swallow up the meaning of it all. Practicing ethnography is asking ourselves unexpected questions and answers that expose the false system of communication that has been installed and that, as the prophetic Guy commented Debord, despite pretending to count on us, has no intention of giving us the floor. If there is any other lesson I learn from Eulàlia's Ethnographies, it is the importance of never appeasing the daily indignation, the one that arises inside us when we look around us with the own eyes In this way, injustice, which needs to be reproduced constantly to sustain itself, will not find refuge in our gaze."