Napa(s) : persistir en lo inacabado
"Francesc Abad began documenting the dismantling of the textile industry in Terrassa in the late 1970s. The archive he has since built up demonstrates that the work of memory to which he has dedicated his artistic practice is also a memory of labor : of the way society is organized, its aesthetic and political systems of production and reproduction. Today, as the last traces of the industrial universe disappear, his project finally becomes legible. Abad is neither a historian nor a nostalgic, like Brecht; he does not construct his work from the good old days, but from the bad new . Napa(s). Persisting in the Unfinished is the result of the collaboration between Francesc Abad and Xavier Nueno, a multiple essay--visual and textual, and, at the same time, an artist's book, critical research, and anomic archive--that mobilizes documentation on the end of textiles to show that Abad's archive is a machine for thinking about the present, an extraordinary tool for reading the world left in its wake by deindustrialization"--Provided by publisher.
Print Book, Spanish, 2017
Ediciones La Bahía, Heras (Cantabria/España), 2017