The Otolith Group, founded In 2000 by Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun, is responsible for the homonymous exhibition that can be visited today in the halls of the MACBA. A project that invites visitors to look into the polysemic discourse of art from its methods. There are films, texts, photographs and other diverse sources. Materials that document or give rise to the creative process, becoming channels and modal ways for its reception.  

A demonstration of the impossibility of the elementary coherence of the art object, unable to get around by itself a unique sense or last. Referring to the generalized process of global capitalism and the recent history, the work of The Otolith Group aims constantly to the need for further thought. Hence its efforts to locate the sources and channels used by the art at the source of interpretation. A key source of meaning is to avoid immediate readings and limited senses.

Despite the disparity of materials, all of them realize the different sets of historical and ideological references to the story behind the historic event. A multitude of stories and materials that reflect how to think through images, sound, narrative, emotion and the mechanisms of memory. Different ways to create, recreate and explain reality. A reflection on perception and the nature of the documents that are part of the creative work of the visual artist.

As part of The Otolith Group. The way of thinking and coinciding with the LOOP Festival, will be held the premiere of the second part of Hydra Decapitate (co-produced by the MACBA Foundation and MAXXI). Until May 25 in Barcelona. AMP

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