From 23th March to 15th June, 2024
ARTIST: Pilar Beltrán
The site now occupied by the EACC building was once one of the courtyards of the Casa de Beneficència, an institution that provided shelter for the elderly and children or a place for the education of deaf individuals. The institution bore the imprint of the Consolation nuns’ education, finding in its courtyards a space for dreams and recreation. The EACC location also holds a history with water, as the Sèquia Major canal once flowed nearby, and water remains a substance present in the building’s architecture and a recurring theme in the artist’s work.
Pilar Beltrán draws on these resonances to explore the past through the concept of filtration. This powerful idea invokes the language of water and, at the same time, the incisive force of history. Viewing the past as a filtration, the artist presents an installation at the EACC that reflects on ways of being and positioning the body in educational institutions such as the EACC or the former Casa de Beneficència. This is a work of poetic reflection on the intersection of past and present and their (in)filtrations.
Pilar Beltrán (Castelló, 1969), artist and lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Valencia, creates work that spans photography, installation, and sculpture, addressing themes such as the flows of bodies and objects structured on a global scale and the tangible and symbolic technologies that organize reality. With a situated perspective and reflection, Beltrán’s artistic practice involves understanding the ecosystems in which she intervenes, opening a dialogue and investigation with their pasts, presents, and futures to grasp their complexity.
