Entrava luz por las crevices proposes a journey through the multiple forms of collective creation that have emerged through video from the seventies to the present. The central axis is the experience of Vidéo-Nou/Servei de Vidéo Comunitari, a collective active in Catalonia during the Transition that understood video not only as a technical means, but also as a political and social tool capable of generating processes of self-organization, neighborhood empowerment and counter-information.
Starting from this historical core, the exhibition unfolds in different thematic areas that intertwine archives, practices and strategies of other national and international collectives, both historical and contemporary. Far from a linear genealogy, a constellation of experiences is proposed that blur the boundaries between art and activism, document and fiction, aesthetics and ethics.
Collective creation, as proposed, is not simply a way of doing in a group, but a practice that questions hegemonic notions of authorship, intellectual property, individual genius, and narrative linearity.
When listening, negotiation and sharing come into play, these experiences invite us to rethink the forms of cultural production and to imagine other ways of relating to images, bodies and territories. Light entering through the cracks alludes to that dim but insistent luminosity that emerges at the margins. The light of the screen, a vehicle of narration, presence and denunciation, becomes here a symbol of the practices that put the spotlight where no one looked, that made the hidden visible, that understood other ways of saying and being.
In this context, information is not presented as a closed product, but as a moving process in which reporting is not only issuing data, but conveying experiences, opening questions, sharing knowledge and building relationships. This was one of the keys to Video-New/Community Video Service's work: putting the medium at the service of communities, generating back and forth circuits between who records, who speaks and who watches. Thus, the video becomes a tool for mediation, active listening and collective construction of the story.