Notes from the future: a crossbreed laborer's diary

Exposición / Frac des Pays de la Loire / 24 bis Boulevard Ampère, La Fleuriaye / Carquefou, Pays de la Loire, Francia
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Cuándo:
19 nov de 2016 - 29 ene de 2017

Inauguración:
19 nov de 2016

Comisariada por:
Dorothée Dupuis

Organizada por:
Frac des Pays de la Loire

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Artists: Adriana Minoliti, Fernando Palma, Gala Porras-Kim, Julien Creuzet, Ximena Garrido-Lecca. Notes from the future: a crossbreed laborer's diary brings together artists who use forms from documents, anthropology and science fiction, as so many imaginary territories to be cannibalized within visual production; challenging notions of culture, origin and belonging. The exhibition invokes the future in order to compose an image of present-day society. Imagination, caricature and dystopia are used to create new representations within pictorial, filmic, sculptural and performative spaces, imbued within other areas of knowledge from recent and contemporary history. The space of art is dealt like a parallel dimension where different realities are to be seen, felt and grasped, a place of social experimentation which establishes a communication between periods and utopias. Julien Creuzet (Blanc-Mesnil, 1986) uses the notion of "archipelagic" thinking developed by Edouard Glissant as the aesthetic and conceptual driving force of a praxis aimed at re-instating, through poetry, the fragmented identities of a world invariably tainted by colonial feudality-at times literally, as in his large paintings made with Bordeaux mixture. Ximena Garrido-Lecca (Lima, 1980) straightforwardly explores the different ways of living in any territory in the world, and captures the visual and narrative elements by means of video and sculpture. Here, a totemic installation confronts the ancient Quechua cosmogonies with continental scientific appetites. Adriana Minoliti (Buenos Aires, 1980) uses the space of painting and sculpture as an imaginary refuge for hybrid creatures, half-figures and half-animals, prolonging in a cyborg manner the modernist domesticating dream. Around prints produced for the exhibition, frolic toys and doll's houses mock their own sexist clichés. Fernando Palma (Milpa Alta, 1963) makes mecatronic sculptures conjuring up the indigenous cosmogonies from which he originates, as well as the dramatic ecological situation of his native village of Milpa Alta, swallowed up over the past few decades by the monstrous expansion of Mexico City. A new work produced for the show literally evokes other similar struggles being waged by other activists closer to us. Lastly, the visual language of Gala Porras-Kim (Bogotá, 1984) draws inspiration from the world of archaeology and museography to create collections of half-real, half-imaginary artefacts, mischievously-and legally-defying established cultural pigeon-holes.

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