Un minuto más (Une minute de plus) is an exhibition by Esther Ferrer, a key Spanish artist represented in the FRAC collection.

Born in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, Esther Ferrer grew under the dictatorship of Franco, a historical situation that will greatly influence her personal construction, she, whose key word will always be: «freedom».  The events of 1968 and the vast anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist and anti-consumerist protest movement that would agitate the world in the 1970s and in which she actively participated will be equally decisive for this artist who very early chose sobriety, the simplicity and economy of means and who, to the material realization of her works or their exhibition, will prefer the concept and the process that presides over them to the workshop. At the antipodes of any narcissism and any romanticism as for the status of the artist, any fetishism as for the artistic object, Esther Ferrer authorizes the other to a free interpretation of her proposals and cultivates an art of detachment which is not without recalling the «well done, badly done, not done» by the artist-poet Robert Filliou. Her work, which is part of time, as much as it is worked by him, is most valuable and necessary today.

When she talks about her work, and while quoting the title of one of her performances, Esther Ferrer likes to say that the way is made by walking. The same is true when we work on the exhibition of an artist who began her work in the 1960s and who has developed a work as consistent in the field of visual arts as in the field of performance. Because the work of Esther Ferrer appears in the FRAC collection which itself questions the notion of time and, within this question, the performative dimension, these are works related to these issues that have been privileged in this exhibition. In other words, works where it is a question of duration, the inscription of bodies in time and space, life and death.

Commissioner : Sylvie Zavatta, Director of the FRAC