Julieta aranda biography of christopher columbus
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From April 29 to July 31, 2016
Curators: François Bucher y Lina López
Julieta Aranda, Erick Beltrán, François Bucher y Lina López, Leyla Cárdenas, Agnes Denes, Harun Farocki, Fabien Giraud y Raphaël Siboni, Jeppe Hein, Hermann von Helmholtz, Profr. Dr. Bernd Kröplin, Douwe Mulder, John Mario Ortiz, Julien Prévieux, Benoît Pype, Manuela Ribadeneira, Rometti Costales, Tomás Saraceno y Daniel Steegman Mangrané
Sala Juan Soriano
The title of this exhibition announces a voyage through time, a seemingly chronological history of major transformations of time and space. This history seems to be linear, but it is so only in appearance. The title names the evidence that time and space mutate as consciousness mutates.
The sailors who sailed with Christopher Columbus were afraid of the abyss at the edge of the earth and of the monstrous creatures they expected to find there. Taking our point of departure in this image, we may consider that for at least 1,500 years prior to this voyage, experiments, such as those conducted by Eratosthenes in 200 BC, had successfully proved the roundness of the earth. But nevertheless, to Columbus’ men the world was still flat.
Our world today is made up of three dimensions, which places us firmly on a globe. This is t
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Abstract
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Ana Torfs: Dark Space Where Things Cannot Be Put
What is artificial in what we perceive? How do we construct it? What is a construction in what we observe and represent? Dark Space Where Things Cannot Be Put is the first solo exhibition by Ana Torfs in the Americas. Through the dialectic between image and text, the artist’s work explores the act of perception to inquire into the implicit historical conventions that come with it.
In her work, Torfs often explores the dichotomy between what we see and what we know or believe we know. Beyond a taxonomic process of ordering and classifying reality, the artist investigates the very constitution of knowledge that arises from language and its derived colonial structures. References as diverse as psychology, shadow play, literature, sign language, botany or diaries, serve to explore language as a hegemonic structure and to propose a weave of relationships that permeate our experience. One example is The Parrot & the Nightingale, a Phantasmagoria (2014), a work in which she uses Christopher Columbus’s 1492 travel journal to allude to linguistic alienation and the curiosity provoked by the “New World,” as well as the difficulty of defining and naming the new, always through the imposi