Exit Media | Jerez e Iges: processes of resignification

June 26, 2025

Exit Media's Express Editorial Office reviews the current exhibition of Concha Jerez and José Iges, Resignifications, at the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), in Santiago de Compostela, which will be on view until 7 September.

"Appropriating their own works. This is how the project begins. A reappropriation that gives way to multiple processes of resignification. As Duchamp did with his now famous Fountain, appropriation consists of taking something that already exists and using it in another context, often without the consent of its creator. Resignification, on the other hand, is an operation by which an object - image, discourse, practice, medium, situation - is assigned hitherto unexpected qualities. Although appropriation can function as a strategy of resignification, the truth is that any act of resignification requires, in some way, a prior appropriation, it does not exist without it. By re-signifying an object, changing its intention or context, it activates new communicative and expressive capacities, setting in motion other thoughts that endow it with new meanings. And the artists Concha Jerez and José Iges know a lot about the many ways of re-signifying that can take place - re-signification not only as a tool to give new meanings, but also as a methodology of displacement, fracture and expansion of what already exists".

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