Interpretations of the Exhibition with Andrea Soto Calderón

Activity
16 April 2026, 19h | Lecture | Lecture room

Open and free activity with limited capacity
Language: Spanish


Open lecture of the Santa Mònica collective learning and research programme Situations (making) #10, in the framework of the exhibition The Assault of Illusion

In this session, Andrea Soto Calderón will offer their own reading of The Assault of Illusion, connecting the works, mechanisms and strategies of representation that the exhibition proposes with the central debates in their field of research and practice.

The readings linked to the lecture are also inscribed in Situations (making) #10, Santa Mònica's collective learning and research programme, aimed at critically analysing how cultural devices configure illusions that shape our desire and our idea of reality.

This proposal forms part of the exhibition's public programme, which under the title Interpretations of the exhibition brings together seven contemporary voices to deepen and expand the questions raised by the project.


With the participation of Andrea Soto Calderón


Andrea Soto Calderón, PhD in Philosophy and lecturer in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), has carried out her research in Valparaíso, Barcelona, Lisbon and Paris. In addition to her teaching activity, she is carrying out an artistic research project on the functioning of images at La Virreina Image Centre in Barcelona. Her lines of research focus on the transformations of aesthetic experience in contemporary culture, artistic research, the study of image and media, as well as the relationship between aesthetics and politics.
 

The Assault of Illusion

An exhibition about art, illusion, deception and power. Featuring around twenty local and international artists, it offers a critical journey through various artistic techniques that have shaped our desires and our sense of reality. In the era of deepfakes and artificial intelligence, can art help us unveil these mechanisms of manipulation?