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'La Mer au Milieu des Terres // Mare Medi Terraneum'

The Mediterranean – etymologically speaking 'mare midi terra', the sea in the middle of the land – is presented as an apparently closed basin which actually opens up to the west through the strait of Gibraltar. A place that has always been at a crossroads of cultures – Mesopotamian, Carthaginian, Berber, Semitic, Persian, Phoenician, Greek and Roman – and a cradle of religions – Jewish, Christian and Islamic.

The exhibition La Mer au Milieu des Terres // Mare Medi Terraneum, curated by Cécile Bourne Farrell, is to reveal the real, critical view certain artists have of a space that is not only that of Shengen or the Euro, but the habitat of all the civilisations in the world.

Because of its location and condition as an island, Mallorca lies at the heart of this western and eastern sea access which gives rise equally to attraction and rejection towards an increasingly protectionist contemporary Europe. The goal of this curatorial project is not to illustrate the Mediterranean, but to offer up a different perspective on these ancient regions, proposing that we act as potential agents of certain practices and situations of the Mediterranean.

The artists selected are: Ali Cherri, Marcel Dinahet, Lara Fluxà, Chourouk Hriech, Bouchra Khalili, Yazan Khalili, Farah Khelil, Ange Leccia, Rogelio López Cuenca, Geoffroy Mathieu & Bertrand Stofleth, Antoni Muntadas, Hervé Paraponaris, Marco Poloni, Zineb Sedira, Oriol Vilanova and Yorgos Zois.