Temporary exhibition "Floquet: Revisiting an icon"
Centre Cívic Baró de Viver · Barcelona
- From
- Thu 19
- November
- Until
- Fri 15
- January 2027
Monday to Friday except 8 December, 25 December and 6 January from 10.00 h to 14.30 h and from 16.00 h to 21.30 h · Saturday except 26 December from 10.00 h to 14.00 h and from 16.00 h to 20.00 h
EntryFree
Where
Centre Cívic Baró de Viver
Carrer de Quito, 8, Baró de Viver, Barcelona
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- Technique
- archival images, glass, paraffin
- Closing date
- 6 January 2027
Who's exhibiting
What's it about
Floquet de Neu (Nfumu Ngui) was a white gorilla, from Equatorial Guinea, who became a symbol of Barcelona. Through the intervention of archive images and the use of materials such as glass or paraffin, present in the animal's biography, the project refers to its colonial origin and the instrumentalization that made it a key figure in the city's popular imaginary. The artist explores the political constructions, the interests of power, and the collective forgetting surrounding the figure of Floquet, and pays a final visit to distance himself from the kind and nostalgic image he himself swallowed during his childhood.
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