Pilar Albarracin's Fables at Centre d'art le LAIT

Pilar Albarracin, born in Seville in 1968, presents an exhibition at Centre d'art le LAIT in Albi from June 5 to October 31, 2010. The show invokes Jean de La Fontaine, featuring installations with a reading donkey besieged by books, a donkey in fire and ice, a wall of mirrors multiplying images like monkeys' grimaces, hybrid peacocks challenging masculine display, and an ant filmed under a stalactite of Tati bags. Albarracin critiques Spanish popular culture clichés and their violence against women, using irony, parody, and carnivalesque strategies across media including installation, sculpture, photography, video, and performance. The exhibition unfolds as a fable across multiple levels, addressing power, oppression, and the traps of appearance while maintaining evocative openness.