The Desert People

Exposición / Hammer Museum / 10899 Wilshire Blvd. / Los Angeles, California, Estados Unidos
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Cuándo:
30 ene de 2016 - 05 jun de 2016

Inauguración:
30 ene de 2016

Comisariada por:
Aram Moshayedi, MacKenzie Stevens

Organizada por:
Hammer Museum

Artistas participantes:
David Lamelas

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Etiquetas
Arte contemporáneo  Arte contemporáneo en California  Video  Video en California 

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Conceived in part as a fictional documentary about a group of people recounting their experience visiting a Native American reservation, The Desert People (1974) is the first work that David Lamelas produced in Los Angeles prior to moving to the city in 1976. Described by the artist as “a study on American film production,” The Desert People shifts between genres to point to the deficiencies of narrative in documentary-style filmmaking. Part fact, part fiction, the film progresses as a typical road movie, interspersed with interviews that provide both reliable and unreliable accounts of the conditions of the Papago (Tohono O’odham) in southeastern Arizona, whose loss of indigenous culture forms the basis of Lamelas’s inquiry. This exhibition is organized by curator Aram Moshayedi with MacKenzie Stevens, curatorial assistant.

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