"Javier Téllez: Carta sobre los ciegos para uso de quienes ven

Exposición / Blanton Museum of Art / The University of Texas at Austin / Austin, Texas, Estados Unidos
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Cuándo:
12 feb de 2017 - 14 may de 2017

Inauguración:
12 feb de 2017

Comisariada por:
Beverly Adams

Organizada por:
Blanton Museum of Art

Artistas participantes:
Javier Téllez

ENLACES OFICIALES
Web 

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Etiquetas
Arte latinoamericano  Arte latinoamericano en Texas  Instalacion  Instalacion en Texas  Video  Video en Texas 

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Javier Téllez’ film and installation work challenges the role of authoritative institutions and established notions of normalcy. For this black and white film transferred to video, Téllez stages an enactment of an Asian parable that recounts how six blind individuals were asked to touch an elephant and relay their experience. The title for the piece is borrowed from the name of an essay by eighteenth-century French philosopher Denis Diderot and suggests the difficulties the blind and the sighted have in understanding each other’s experience. The blind may not see the world as the sighted do, while the sighted only have a limited experience of living with blindness. This work–part scripted fiction, part documentary film–opens a path for mutual understanding through the moving acceptance of our shared humanity. Generous funding for this video installation is provided by the Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation.

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