Catalogue

de Juan Cruz

"The project conceived especially for the MUSAC will focus on texts of their own production and the relationships they establish with various works of the artist from the 90s to the present. These texts will be the basis of an artists' book that also published on the occasion of this project, and in turn the raison d'etre of the artist's old works that are presented and re-presented in the exhibition space, through a set of projections to achieve create a kind of unique work as an installation composed of images and references to previous works" -- MUSAC website. "Catalogue: It will seem a dream" is the first collection of art writing by the British artist Juan Cruz (born in Palencia, Spain, in 1970). From the start, Cruz's artistic practice, which spans video, performance and installation, has been intimately concerned with language, and with translation in particular. The texts collected here cover Cruz's entire career to date, and have been retrieved from works produced in an array of now obsolete formats: cassettes, mini discs, miniDVs, Hi8s, Quark, Claris Works. These writings thus perform translation on multiple levels, from art history and textual genres to technologies and contexts of presentation. Somewhere between an exhibition and its catalogue, an artist's book and a reader, 'Catalogue: It will seem a dream' clears a speculative path through words and the images they evoke.