Alán Carrasco is participating with his work «History Loves Paradoxes» (2023) in the group exhibition «Todo lo sólido se desvanece en el aire. Ideas y poéticas para un futuro en disputa» [All That Is Solid Melts into Air: Ideas and Poetics for a Contested Future] at the Centro Cultural de España Juan de Salazar (Asunción, Paraguay).
The exhibition, curated by Ferran Barenblit in collaboration with Azucena Arvez, Lía Colombino, and Hugo Mendieta, critically and reflectively examines contemporary imaginaries in a world that has left behind the promises of modernity. Taking as its starting point the celebrated phrase by Marx and Engels, “All that is solid melts into air”, this project addresses the collapse of the structures that defined recent centuries—progress, reason, liberal democracy—and delves into the uncertainty of the present, marked by climate crises, inequality, disinformation, and geopolitical tensions.
«Todo lo sólido se desvanece en el aire» features the work of Cristina Lucas, Alán Carrasco, Mario Santamaría, Rosell Meseguer, Domènec, Alexander Apóstol, María Ruido, Jota Izquierdo, Marcelo Expósito, Regina de Miguel, Marcos Benítez, Belén Rodríguez, Fredi Casco, Erika Meza & Javier López, Pedro Barrail, Gustavo Riego, Osvaldo Salerno and Kira Xonorika.