Descripción de la Exposición
«subsamson presents a group exhibition with our current resident artists: Ximena Izquierdo Ugáz, Julia Pimes, Eduardo Restrepo Castaño &Bryan Rodriguez.
"Torero, Flagler and Aciano 278 U are part of an on-going series of exercises on memory. These were prompted by my father, whom never formally considered himself an artist, but was working on a project before his death in 2014. This project entailed writing as much as he could remember about a given image from his life. I decided to continue this practice for him in his absence. - Ximena Izquierdo Ugáz
Ximena Izquierdo Ugáz and Bryan Rodriguez have also collaborated on a work that takes the form of a postcard illustrating notions of travel and tourism culture. "As a market strategy, merchants dress white mannequins in garments made and worn by indigenous people to evoke comfort in the hopeful buyers (white tourists-the same bodies as the mannequins). As a performative gesture, we sent our postcards to white friends/look-a-likes of the given mannequin to make visible the dynamic of colonial consumerism (which never looks inwardly or is held accountable-cultural appropriation). We wanted to create an irreversible tension with people we knew to confront the often unspoken product of their whiteness globally; how their whiteness has and continues to violently inform our contexts."
Julie Pimes' work, titled CD DADDY, is a painted transcription of The Who's song 'Behind Blue Eyes' later covered by Limp Bizkit. "It is part of an ongoing series through which I collect songs that featured prominently in my growing up in a white family. This song specifically is written so that the listener might imagine themselves through the eyes of a person who is ostracized, violent, emotionally needy, emotionally drained, striving, a man who is portrayed as misunderstood. Yet it is odd, as these types of men are humanized in so many ways. It served as one of many frameworks through which the type of white men I grew up with developed their way to discuss vulnerability - they were ultimately violent at the expense of those around them. Therefore, I while listening, imagine myself as a person of vengeance as well."
Eduardo Restrepo Castaño is a Boston based artist and organizer. Through a research practice that brings together artistic, academic, and lived experiences, Restrepo Castaño currently examines the symbolic and palpable potentials of imaging natural spaces/temporalities through a corporeal diasporic subjectivity.»
Exposición. 19 nov de 2024 - 02 mar de 2025 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
Formación. 23 nov de 2024 - 29 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España
