Carles Congost. ¿Para qué sirven las canciones?

What Good Are Songs? articulates a youth story of an urban nature in which it establishes a series of questions about the new generations, their nonconformity, the ways of individual resistance to systemic impositions, precariousness and frustrated dreams or ideals in the current context of continuous crisis of the capitalist model. The exhibition also houses four of his latest works: Simply the Best, Wonders, Abans de la casa and Paradigm, which will share space in video installation format.

The work of Carles Congost (Olot, 1970) is situated around the construction of personality and codes of conduct and is also characterized by the reworking of cinematographic, photographic and musical stereotypes. His work is developed in accordance with different disciplines – photography, video, sound, and drawing – incorporating, at the same time, a classic and ironic treatment of the image. Since the mid-90s, the artist has been composing and producing music under the alias The Congosound.

• La Casa Encendida, 2020
• Curator: Tolo Cañellas
• Spanish-English
• Dimensions: 165 x 235 mm
• Binding: Softcover

Publication of the exhibition Carles Congost: What Good Are Songs?.