The opening exhibition at espacio 1414 is the result of a careful study of the Berezdivin Collection and the directions that have oriented it in the past decade. Many of the works in the collection relate to discursive instances that, in the past thirty years, have come to substitute the traditional art-historical conventions for the critical evaluation of art, such as those specifically related to medium, technique and other more abstract categories related to national origin. It is precisely upon this affinity between the collection and a certain zeitgeist that this exhibition has been organized. The distribution of the works in the space thus responds to the correlation with these critical discourses that have informed contemporary art and theory.

The thematic axes that group the works in the collection are inspired in some of the discursive modes that have become critical instruments in the approach to contemporary art, namely: the dialectics between private and public space; domesticity; the archive; the idea of travel, Diaspora, tourism, migrations; the construction of identities; Freudian ideas regarding the repressed unconscious and the unheimlich; and the city.

Collections, like archives, always have a life of their own, which can sometimes run parallel to the tastes and wills of their owners. After all, these objects are part of the visual history of our times and have been created for exhibitions in museums, biennales and galleries before being acquired for the collection. Thus, the exhibition becomes an attempt to “psychoanalyze” this group of works, delving into their past lives and in the process establishing certain coordinates that may guide the spectator through this exhibition, which gathers a significant representation of contemporary art production.