Marcelo Expósito is an artist, editor and translator who also served as Secretary of the Congress of Deputies and Member of the Spanish Parliament between 2016 and 2019. Through his research, he reconstructs and updates some of the sensible processes of the historical avant-gardes. As such, he brings into the present the emancipatory, insurgent, self-determined radicality of the struggles that are part of the tradition of modernity. His practice revolves around expressive media such as photography, writing, conversation and interviews, connecting seemingly superficial events and ephemeral moments with historical threads of resistance. In light of the current crises and neoliberalism’s intensification towards new forms of fascism, Expósito works closely with the materials and the tactile memory of these historical struggles in order to catalyse processes of restitution and healing from the violence we face on a daily basis.

In this transcription, Radio Web MACBA talks to Marcelo Expósito about scales and oratories, about artistic methodologies, political imagination and herbariums. We look at constitutional leaps that broaden opportunities for listening and remind us—from the South—of the rights of the earth, rivers and mountains. Marcelo also tells us about how recombining existing laws and treaties can be a way of updating valuable constructive procedures and reinvigorating non-fascist ways of life, in this new context of historical breakdown.

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