CONTRAINTE / RESTRAINT / curators:
/ Julie Bélisle
/ Kiki Mazzucchelli
/ Miguel Zegarra
Exhibition in Montreal
OBORO et Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay
Canada — from November 7 2009 to December 12 2009
PHOTOS AND PRESS CLIPPINGS
CURATOR'S INTENTIONS
The starting point of this exhibition is to show what the Brazilian and Peruvian contexts, in their cultural, social, and political aspects, have in common regarding the use of media technologies. It explores how these aspects are reflected in representative new media art practices and works from both countries. The common issues in these specific contexts could be explained or made visible in a dynamic of dualities, paradoxes and a superimposition of different worlds, which built on idiosyncrasies to reveal new perspectives on present times. These new points of view from South American media artists present a wide range of challenges to the ‘straightforward’ paths into the globalized world.
Brazil’s and Peru’s particular modernisms are marked by various parallels in their extravagant and creative precariousness, in the mass technological improvisation and complex temporal layers of their chaotic, violent and brutal cities, in their histories and memories.
Lima, the capital of Peru, represents a new paradigm of modernity that is, however, marked by paradox: chaos, poverty, mass access to technology, pirated technological products, historical buildings recycled into modern ones. All the signs of Peru’s socio-economic complexity are concentrated in this situation. São Paulo is Brazil’s financial and business centre, a place where extreme situations of poverty and wealth co-exist. What the two cities seem to have in common, and which is reflected in many works in this exhibition, is the coexistence of paradoxical situations in which the forces of modernity and precariousness are constantly at play.
WORKS PRESENTED
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Alvo (Target)
by Leandro Lima, Gisela Motta
2008, Interactive installation
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Armas.Obj.
by Leandro Lima, Gisela Motta
2008, Paper objects, variable dimensions
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Grand Canyon
by Rodrigo Matheus
2008, Video, 4 min 12 s
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Matari 69200
by Rolando Sánchez
2005, video game
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Parálisis
by Gabriel Acevedo Velarde
2005, Video animation, 2 min 15 s
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Run>Routine
by Lucas Bambozzi
2007, 3 channels computer-based video projection
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Satellite Cities
by Nicole Franchy
2009, Interactive video installation
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South Pole
by Rodrigo Matheus
2008, Video, 3 min 3 s
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Stereo Reality Environment 3: Brutalismo
by José Carlos Martinat
2007, Interactive installation
Tate Modern Collection
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Tokyo
by Rodrigo Matheus
2008, Video, 6 min 25 s
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Video #15
by Amilcar Packer
2008, Video installation
