à rebours

Exposición / Frac Franche-Comté / Cité des arts - 2, passage des arts / Besançon, Franche-Comte, Francia
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Cuándo:
29 may de 2016 - 18 sep de 2016

Inauguración:
29 may de 2016

Organizada por:
Frac Franche-Comté

Artistas participantes:
Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza

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Descripción de la Exposición

à rebours presents work by Ecuadorian artist Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza whose oeuvre is built around notions of memory and forgetting, apparition and disappearance. It is the fruit of a troubling manipulation of time and attempts to invert its progression. The exhibition the Frac devotes to her echoes work she designed in the framework of a public commission for Chalezeule, a town situated near Besançon. à rebours notably assembles a piece acquired by the Frac (preface to a cartography of an imagined country, 2010) and an impressive installation the artist began in 2009 called untitled (extras), as well as the videocountdown (2005-13). untitled (extras) is composed of newspaper whereupon the artist has rubbed out shapes-those of extras in the media scene who are, by nature, neither subject or object. Only a ghost-like shape remains on the page, their auras. Nearby, numbered flasks with a clinical esthetic contain residue or precipitation of each of her erasures, seemingly the very essence of these beings lacking consistency. They build a community, a moving crowd of anonyms. Here the artist waxes paradoxical, giving the extras an identity, be it digital: by erasing images of these humans "on the fringe" our eye barely glances, Estefanía hollowly resupplies them with body. By making them disappear she reveals them.

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