The noise invades us, it surrounds us creating a network that bursts with the slightest communications. It’s not a new thing in history, Seneca in his „Letters to Lucilio“ already tells us how annoyed he is to live in Rome because of the noise.

But perhaps what differentiates old times from the current ones, is the avalanche of interference that surrounds our lives, not only in the public environment, but also in the private environment. The cause is the so-called „information technologies,“ which are generators of interference and often make any message incomprehensible, saturating our ability to separate news from the surrounding noise.

In this exhibition we have asked nine artists to do a work that reminds us of this background noise in which we live, gathering in La Gray their approaches. Works that range from poetic and personal perspectives, to ironic and conceptual games about noise, making it the absolute protagonist of our room.

A sample that allows us to enter into creative worlds that are very different from one another, which forces us to consider the problems of contemporary society where what we feel is an indescribable mortar of noises.

Francesc Roig and Antonio Luque, curators of „Background noise“