NYAB Event - "The End. And..." Exhibition

"The End. And..." Exhibition

Frederico Sève Gallery/latincollector

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Latincollector presents "The End. And…," a subjective documentary show. Why subjective documentary? Because reality is inevitably altered and reshaped during the various processes of documentation. Because, representation is never democratic. Because when multiple subjectivities are represented in arenas of free expression and artistic production, history becomes a constant current event; we enter into an eternal state of becoming, full of surprise and life. Subjectivity is more than a given, it is a frontier.

Previously, history was written by the victors. Today it is being documented and posted immediately via the internet from a bystander’s mobile phone. These artists: Elly Clarke, Suely Farhi, Livia Flores, Anna Bella Geiger, Daniel Leeb, Carlos Motta, Sebastián Patané Masuelli, Christine Schulz, Adriana Varella, Alex Villar, Jonathan Villoch & Alex Lopez, all work within this contemporary situation. Their orientation to the viewer is a self-aware understanding that their documentations of reality are now potentially as substantial as they were previously tenuous. Some of them scale ineptitudes of wholeness by bypassing semblances of “real” altogether and veering off into landscapes of the unconscious. While others, through the use of collaboration, interviews and artifacts create platforms for multiple authors; and thus, multiple points of view.

The modes of production are as varied as the methodologies employed. Photography, performance, podcast, painting, installation, video, film and digitally recorded accounts of events are all employed to articulate subjectivity.

"The End. And…" celebrates a broad definition of documentary where fact and fiction exist on the same line, as opposed to on different sides of it. Sometimes, the self is alone contemplating reality as it descends upon the senses and passes through the imagination. At other times the self is social and engaged in attempts to navigate reality by mediating through language.

[Image: Anna Bella Geiger "PASSAGENS/PASSAGES 1" (1974) 13 min. BXW Filmed in Sony portapack, VT Jom Azulay]