li pots dir foc a una flama que no crema?

Can You Call Fire a Flame That Doesn't Burn? was a curatorial project that ended up materializing in a joint exhibition between Silvia Calzada and Max Azemar around a critical reflection on the new institutionalities, which proclaim themselves "revolutionary", defenders of "critical thinking" and "emerging art". Words that have lost their meaning and their capacity to ignite, that is, they have become empty terms. It is from here that the exhibition was articulated, starting from fire, from how it is an act in itself that overflows, that rubs against.

Within the exhibition, Silvia Calzada's paintings were presented, works burned by a past fire, and which placed us within a new visual grammar toward what remains outside the discourse: destruction, trace, silence. In the same space, Max Azemar's incendiary lecture took place, generating a space with (and about) fire, a lecture where the word ignited, where a fire was generated, not symbolic but real.

The space in which the exhibition took place underwent an activation from the lighting and effects of a fire (the space had already been prepared), a localized fire that nevertheless puts in tension the formats, languages, and strategies of recognition and exclusion of the supposed "new revolutionary institutionalities". It was through this fire that questions were generated such as: "What does it mean for an institution to validate a fire?"; "Can institutional emergency contain the true emergency of dissent?" Reaching the conclusion that this flame is a condition of thought, practice, and doubt.