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La monnaie vivante: Barcelona

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18 September - 15 November 2025
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Photo credit: Roberto Ruiz
Photo credit: Roberto Ruiz
La Monnaie Vivante is the title of an essay and a series of performative and photographic works initiated by Pierre Klossowski in 1970. Soon, Michel Foucault hailed it as the most important book of its time. Excess, energy, dissolution: this is how Maurice Blanchot defines the body of our time after having read its lines.
 
Enclosed in that contradiction, Pierre Molinier had anticipated it with a series of photographs in which he equated the transvestite, fictionalised, artificial body with the work of art: "L'Oeuvre, le peintre et son fétiche." But then, what can a body do?
 
If everything is reduced to mere merchandise, how can we be a body that does not place exchange value before use value? Or is the problem value itself — valuation, evaluation, examination?
 
Thus, this catalogue of organs aspires to be a body and becomes a singularity, a subject, a citizen.
What is, then, a body?
 
Pedro G. Romero
 
Artists:
Jordi Alcaraz · Efrén Álvarez · Barquero · Jean-Michel Basquiat · Nadjib Ben Ali · Magda Bolumar · Fernando  Botero · Clara Cebrián · Mari Chordà · Salvador Dalí · Élan d'Orphium · Eulàlia Grau · Victor Jaenada · Marc Larré · Wifredo Lam · Xavier Mañosa · Joan Miró · José Pérez Ocaña · El Palomar · Pablo Picasso · Martina Pla · Lúcia Prancha · Amèlia Riera · Rita Sala · David Rodríguez Caballero · Antonio Saura · Niki de Saint-Phalle · Antoni Tàpies · Rachel Valdés
Installation Views
  • Photo credit: Roberto Ruiz
    Photo credit: Roberto Ruiz
  • Photo credit: Roberto Ruiz
    Photo credit: Roberto Ruiz
  • Photo credit: Roberto Ruiz
    Photo credit: Roberto Ruiz
  • Photo credit: Roberto Ruiz
    Photo credit: Roberto Ruiz
  • Photo credit: Roberto Ruiz
    Photo credit: Roberto Ruiz
  • Photo credit: Roberto Ruiz
    Photo credit: Roberto Ruiz
  • Photo credit: Roberto Ruiz
    Photo credit: Roberto Ruiz
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  • La Monnaie vivante

    La Monnaie vivante

    What can a body do? If everything is reduced to mere merchandise, how can we be a body that does not put exchange value before use value?. Text by Pedro G. Romero September 15, 2025
    La monnaie vivante is the title of an essay and a series of performative and photographic works promoted by Pierre Klossowski in 1970. Michel Foucault...
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