Curriculums

• Mabel Palac�n

Mabel Palac�n (Barcelona, 1965) graduated from the University of Barcelona in History of Art and Cinema, Photography and Video. Since the beginning of her career she has made photographs, videos and installations, becoming interested in a great variety of formats in which an image can take form, as well as their unstable nature. In her works, things do not happen directly, because the reality is mediated. Her video works describe a fragmented reality, broken narratives structured in layers, in which the viewer becomes a fundamental actor. They are works with a major spatial dimension in which the question of scale and multiple screens call on the viewer, bringing image and architecture into relationship.

In recent years her work has been shown at the Salvador Dal� Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida; the Museu Colec��o Berardo, Lisbon; the Museu Empord�, Figueres; the Casino Luxembourg Forum d'Art Contemporain; in the O.K. Center, Linz; the Centre d�Art Santa M�nica and the MACBA, Barcelona; the Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid; the K�nstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz; the Reykjavik Art Museum; the Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich; the Norwich Gallery; the MUA in Alicante and the Lothar Albrecht Galerie, Frankfurt.

Amongst other awards, her work has been recognised with the ACCA Art Critics Prize 2009, �Art Catal� a l�estranger�, for �Una noche sin fin� at the Salvador Dal� Museum, St Petersburg (Florida); a special mention in the City of Barcelona Fine Arts Prize 2003 for �La dist�ncia correcta� and the Altadis Fine Arts Prize (2003).

Selected individual exhibitions

2009	"Una noche sin fin", Salvador Dal� Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida.
	"Hinterland", Museu Colec�ao Berardo, Lisboa.
2005	"A parts iguals", Museu Empord�, Figueres.
2003	"La dist�ncia correcta", Centre d�Art Santa M�nica, Barcelona.
	"La distancia correcta", MUA, Alacant.
2001	"1, 2, 3 films", Artothek, K�ln.
2000	"Sur L�Autoroute", Galer�a Tom�s March, Val�ncia.
1999	"Sur L�Autoroute", Project Rooms, ARCO, Madrid.
	"Sur L�Autoroute", Galer�a Alejandro Sales,Barcelona.
1998	"Para M. (S�quence voiture/Nuit pr�s du motel/Au petit cin�ma)", Metr�nom, Barcelona.
	"Para M.", Luigi Franco Arte Contemporanea. Tor�.
	El Roser. Biennal D�Art Leandre Crist�fol. Lleida.
1997	Galer�a Helga de Alvear. Madrid.
	"The Troublemaker (to Claude Bessy)", The Agency. Londres.
	"La Pelea / El Baile", L. A. Galerie. Frankfurt.

Selected recent Group Exhibitions

2010	"Ciudades bajo la mirada". Sala Ver�nicas, Murcia.
	"Entretiempos. Instantes, intervalos, duraciones". Teatro Fern�n G�mez, Centro de Arte. Madrid. Comissariat per Sergio Mah.
2007	"The Screen-Eye or the New Image". Casino Luxembourg, Forum d� Art Contemporain: Luxembourg. Comissariat per R�gis Michel.
	"Geograf�as del desorden. Migraci�n, Alteridad y nueva esfera social". Centro de Historia de Zaragoza.
2006	"Geograf�as del desorden. Migraci�n, Alteridad y nueva esfera social". La Nau, Universidad de Valencia; Centro de Arte Juan Ismael, Fuerteventura; Centro de Historia de Zaragoza.
	"Mirador. Medienkunst aus spanien". O.K. Center. Linz.
	"La mirada breve", CCEBA. Buenos Aires.
	"16 Proyectos de Arte Espa�ol", ARCO� 06, Madrid.
	"Identidades cr�ticas". Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid.
2005	"Identidades cr�ticas", Sala Puerta Nueva, C�rdoba.
	"Picasso to Plensa: A century of Art from Spain", The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque.
	"Sessi� cont�nua", CCCB, Barcelona.
	"Permanencias difusas", CAB, Burgos.
	"The Jafre Project", Jafre.
	"Standars of reality. Five artists from Barcelona". Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art+Design. Los Angeles.