Sow ideals and harvest hybrids

Exposición / fluent / Luis Hoyos Sainz, 2 (interior) / Santander, Cantabria, España
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Cuándo:
19 mar de 2021 - 18 jun de 2021

Inauguración:
19 mar de 2021 / 16 a 22 h.

Precio:
Entrada gratuita

Organizada por:
fluent

Artistas participantes:
Anna Hulacova

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Etiquetas
Escultura  Escultura en Cantabria 

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

fluent is pleased to present Sow ideals and harvest hybrids, Anna Hulačová's first solo exhibition in Spain. In her sculptural work Hulačová reflects the transformation of organic and cultural landscapes in a process of rapid industrial extinction. Her work, deeply rooted in folklore, indigenieties and the tensions between artisanal and industrial forms of living, expresses a desire to resist the annihilation that neo–liberal forces impose onto rural territories and societies. Her solo exhibition at fluent, which marks the first presentation of her work in Spain, revisits a group of concrete figures: insects, humans, plants and public statues mutating into one another. During the collectivization process of land, the management of farms in the Checz Republic was mostly organized on a hierarchical division of the territory. The local legacies of labor, care and coexistence were soon replaced by precariousness, extraction and pollution similarly to today’s use of land by big corporations. For Hulačová, these histories are about the subjugation of nature both in collectivized and liberalized systems. In Sow ideals and harvest hybrids, Hulačová populates the space with concrete sculptures echoing the idea of a Soviet public monument. However these figures take on the familiar appearance of a public statue they soon turn into ambiguous, hybrid beings. Inert humans unfold as contorted plants while disembodied insects turn into an abstraction of their flesh. In them, themes of memory, mortality, transformation and metamorphosis are embodied through the use of symbolic materials, folklores, narratives and crafts.

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