BARCELONA.- With simple, seemingly naive drawings and aphoristic texts based on absurd but strongly subversive humour, Ana Garcia-Pineda (Sabadell, 1982) takes apart small everyday tragedies, creating an alternative space of resistance. The artist opens the exhibition series One Foot Out. Expeditions and Diasporas with Fiction is a Reality Yet to Happen, a show that revolves around drawing, text, and literary aspects, combining various concepts: the theory of possible worlds, the concept of truth in fiction, and the study of reality through the unreal.

Colour, Identicals, Body, Language, Shape, Property, Function, Holes, Time. These are the nine concepts that Garcia-Pineda has chosen to redefine in a large-scale installation created specifically for Espai 13. Each of these themes is re-examined through a series of literary exercises in audio form that accompany the various drawings and objects displayed in the room. As the curator of the show Jordi Antas explains, Garcia-Pineda seeks to detach these everyday notions from the logic that governs our world, and to bring them into a personal, sometimes absurd, sometimes perverse, cosmogony with echoes of fantasy cinema, literature, science fiction, and scientific value.

Ana Garcia-Pineda (Sabadell, 1982) lives and works between Barcelona and Berlin. With a degree in Fine Arts, Garcia-Pineda combines drawing and text to explore possible worlds hidden in reality. Her solo projects include Salvar el mundo and Romperlo todo y que haga tiroriro, and her work has been included in group shows such as I Will Not Throw Rocks in London and Cosmopolitan Barcelona in New York. She has been awared several grants, including the 2006 Beca Incubadora and the 2008 BCN Producció grant and she was resident artist at Hangar art centre in 2009. With Haizea Barcenilla, she is co-founder of the collective Damas, which aims to explore connecting elements such as bridges, zippers, networks and velcro and experiment with the curatorial format.

«There are pros and cons to a changing world. It is magical when grains of sand on a beach turn into glitter or confetti. If our veins turn into rivers, we no longer need to drink, and we can eat the fish inside us. But of course, there are some drawbacks: it is quite uncomfortable and smelly, for example, when roads turn into intestines or when there are sheep in the sky instead of clouds. It is unquestionably more stimulating when clouds transform into brains» (From the audio of Shape, by Ana Garcia-Pineda).