“We start from the premise that the 1970s is a moment of crisis that changes the world,” says Nuria Enguita, who curates the exhibition with Marta Mestre and Raphael Fonseca, a specialist in Latin American art at the Denver Art Museum. In a context of expanding capitalism and globalization, in which counterculture movements emerge, “the arts also transform, and transform the artistic field, expanding it”, says Nuria Enguita. “Art comes out of museums, out into bodies, out into language, out into the earth, out into mediaand even extends to interpersonal relationships”, he highlights. “Museums, as part of this artistic ecosystem, also have to transform themselves to be able to cope with these new artistic narratives.”
For Marta Mestre, May I Help You? Can I Help? “bring a question back to the museum: how to move from an institutional critique to a critical institutionality, how to make institutions spaces that welcome these critical stances of artists without allowing themselves to be captured by the market or by museological orientation”.
This exhibition reflects, according to MAC/CCB, the institution’s commitment to “broadening interpretative horizons, questioning hegemonic narratives and contributing to a critical and plural approach”.
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