Cielito lindo Current exhibition

Postcards have been, since their origin, a visual and ideological construction. Through the manipulation of images, these small windows on the world have contributed to shaping the perception of tourist destinations, transforming reality into an idealised scenario. Cielito lindo is an exhibition that presents part of Cristina Arribas‘s enormous collection of postcards, where the sky becomes the protagonist of a game of assemblages and repetitions. Sometimes, the same sky is multiplied over different landscapes; at other times, the same landscape is reinvented under different skies. In this montage practice, the postcards reveal their essence as visual artifices that challenge our perception and invite us to reflect on the visual construction and stereotypes of the landscape.

Among the activities that happen around Cielito lindo, on Thursday 8th of May at 6 p.m. Cristina Arribas and the artist Iván Candeo hold a talk before the opening. Invited by Cristina, Iván created a series of videos that pay homage to disco postcards, those wonderful sound gadgets to send by mail.

Download here the leaflet of the exhibition.