‘We are 17 years previous’: superficial on the networks, with out filters with buddies | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

They are 17 years previous, they acknowledge that they’re superficial on social networks, the place they at all times present the perfect model of themselves; however they stay with out filters with their buddies, whom they think about important at this stage of their life. This could possibly be the one dependable abstract of the collective portrait through which 300 younger individuals from Catalonia, Lithuania and Romania have participated, however they themselves solely see one trait that unites all of them: their age. Without prejudices and with out premises, the protagonists of this exhibition, which will be seen on the Center de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) till May 17, discover who they’re, what they really feel and the way they see the world by images, movie and phrases.

Never earlier than have younger individuals portrayed themselves as a lot as they do now, however neither have they pretended on the identical stage to launch an idealized picture of their life. We are 17 years previous. A collective portrait involves demystify this stage with the participation of 300 younger individuals who present their faces, their rooms, their neighborhoods and their buddies; but in addition their ideas, their goals, their frustrations and their downturns, with out coming into into political points.

“There is no false projection here, we don’t want to fit in, we convey who we are,” admitted Paula Quimbayo, a scholar on the Doctor Puigvert middle in Barcelona, ​​on the day of the presentation, a tour of all of the rooms through which a dozen college students acted as guides. Axel Vicente, a scholar on the Bellvitge Institute in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, agreed along with his challenge associate that they offer “a more realistic vision, not the one offered by the media.”

It has been a job of many months that they haven’t finished alone. They have been accompanied by movie and images professionals, artists and playwrights who’ve taught them to relate themselves by the picture. Furthermore, they’ve had as a lightweight the e-book that the movie director and photographer Johan van der Keuken revealed in 1955, with portraits of his buddies between the ages of 14 and 19, when he was within the final 12 months on the Liceo Montessori in Amsterdam, and which will be seen for the primary time in Barcelona. At the identical time, till March 4, the Filmoteca de Catalunya has scheduled a retrospective cycle devoted to the filmmaker.

Among the movie academics was Jaume Claret Muxart, director of the movie unusual riverwith a story that’s the reverse of what youngsters of this age normally eat. Aroa del Amo, from the Doctor Puigvert Institute, says that with him he has realized that “silence can express many things” and has been capable of worth a really private movie, the place he absolutely acknowledges the one who has been his instructor, with whom he has realized that almost all of audiovisuals he consumes “are very dopamine.”

With an aesthetic that recreates the world of youth, in all rooms there are mattresses in order that guests can settle right down to see the exhibition. If within the first room the portraits within the foreground focus the gaze on individuality, after an area the place you possibly can hear conversations between them and one other devoted to their bedrooms and the areas they normally move by, buddies are every little thing within the following rooms of the tour. Chats on the seashore, tales within the park or midnight confessions are a part of this generational seize that doesn’t romanticize youth, however slightly reveals it with its ups and downs.

The exhibition, curated by the A Bao A Qu Cultural Association and the researcher Érika Goyarrola, is the results of a collective challenge that features two sound installations by Xavier Bobés and Albert Coma, an audiovisual challenge by Martí Madaula, a mural by the illustrator Núria Inés (Tintafina) and a movie created throughout the framework of the Cinema en Curs program, edited with Meritxell Colell.

It closes We are 17 years previous with an audiovisual set up, which will be understood as a last social gathering with musical compositions by the younger individuals themselves, which they’ve carried out accompanied by the Xamfrà music faculty; and an audiovisual piece created by college students of the Institut de Tècniques Audiovisuals i de l’Espectacle. Here, the darkness intensifies, the music rises and guests can depart their message on a wall, simply as they do within the loos of nightclubs. As Cindy Lauper sang within the eighties, it won’t be unusual if many depart that motto of women simply wish to have enjoyable. It is obvious that youth continues to be, and will it final, a time of enjoyable.