Exploring Fiction and Reality: Curating Urban Art in ‘Evasiones’
Through urban art and graffiti, tensions are explored between artistic autonomy and its integration into mainstream culture.
Urban art has always thrived on the streets, embracing the rawness and unpredictability of public spaces. But what happens when this same art, so deeply tied to its environment, enters a gallery setting? Evasiones. The Street as Fiction from B-Murals dives into this very question, exploring how urban art and graffiti navigate the line between fiction and reality, the street and the gallery. Curated in collaboration with INDAGUE, this project challenges viewers to think differently about the role of urban art, asking how these forms of expression can exist authentically in an institutional setting.
This interview is the first of a 3-part series that connects you with the curators and artists behind Evasiones. In part one, we speak with curator Jaume Gómez Muñoz and artist Mathieu Tremblin about the exhibition’s curatorial vision, the concept of fiction as a theme, and the evolving role of graffiti in both public spaces and galleries. In the upcoming articles, we’ll get the perspectives of the participating artists, exploring their interpretations of evasion and their relationship with urban environments, as…
