photos: © Roberto Ruiz . + Fundació Antoni Tàpies
The compulsive collecting in which Oriol Vilanova indulges every Sunday excavates the ruins of the society of the spectacle, which was responsible in the first place for the enormous production and circulation of images. As the artist imagines, ‘flea markets are now sanctuaries’ in which an object as banal as the postcard continues to glow brightly in the dust.
Every Sunday, Oriol Vilanova (Manresa, 1980) goes rummaging in the flea markets. There he buys postcards that once circulated around the world. Today, they are in a state of maximum dispersion, an impression made worse by the fact that in the flea markets these images coexist with discarded second-hand books, magazines, comics, trading cards, stamps, coins, films and video games.
Fundació Antoni Tàpies
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