Opening: John Gerrard

Ivorypress Space I hosted an exhibition of John Gerrard (Dublin, 1974) from 7 February until April the second 2011. This multidisciplinary artist’s work combines new technologies with photography and poetic language, while also reflecting on political and social issues. Among the works on display were Cuban School (Sancti Spiritus), 2011–comissioned by Ivorypress – a work that deals with the actual situation in Cuba out of an artistic perspective. Through hundreds of photographs of a school on the outskirts of Havana, Gerrard has constructed a 3D model and generated a software that allows the viewer to see the building from any distance and perspective thompsonmusicstudio.com. The work changes throughout the day and shows the lighting it would have in Cuba at the same moment we’re seeing its image in Madrid. The condition of the building, which still functions as a school even as it falls to ruin, is a way to speak about melancholy and to envisage the effects of time on structures, whether architectonic or human.