Claudia Joskowicz “Intersections”
LMAKgallery
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LMAKprojects presents Claudia Joskowicz solo exhibit Intersections. The exhibit consists of a large video installation and photographs of her project Every Building on Avenida Alfonso Ugarte - After Rusha. The work is an exploration of the urban landscape of the city of Alto in her home country of Bolivia through a look at the intersections between everyday life and historical events that resonate in the collective memory of that city and, by extension, the country at large.
The photographic series and two-channel video installation Every Building on Avenida Alfonso Ugarte - After Ruscha takes as its inspiration Edward Ruscha’s photo book Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966). A selection of photographs from the series ponders the juxtaposition of the continuum of time and a still reenactment of an affecting moment in Bolivian history.
The video is installed in the back section of the gallery with two projects on opposite walls, with a true to life ration. As the viewer stands in between the two projections, one is taken along a continuous tracking shot on the major thoroughfare in El Alto. The video takes inventory of a quotidian Bolivian scene reflecting a contemporary developing city. El Alto is one of the largest urban centers and fastest growing in Bolivia as well as one of the sites where violent protests related to the Bolivian gas conflict in October 2003 took place. In a continuous take, the mundane is juxtaposed with ritual and social conflict inserting one single still scene of violence into the register of the typical scenery of daily Bolivian life thus capturing the variegated reality of El Alto, and, by extension, also that of all developing countries.
Claudia Joskowicz lives and works in New York and Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Solo exhibitions include shows at Forever & Today curated by Sara Reisman, Thierry Goldberg and Momenta Art in NY, Museo Nacional de Arte in La Paz, Centro Cultural Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz (Bolivia), and Lawndale Art Center in Houston. Recent group exhibitions at the Tenth Sharjah Biennial, the 29th São Paulo Biennial, the Tenth Habana Biennial, Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, the Videobrasil Festival in São Paulo, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Asturias, Spain Center for Book Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Artists Space, Exit Art all in New York, the McDonough Museum of Art in Cleveland, Dukwon Gallery in Seoul, El Museo del Barrio in NY, The Bronx Museum of the Arts in NY, the Soap Factory in Minneapolis and the Dallas Contemporary. Her work was recently acquired by the Kadist foundation.
Joskowicz, a Fulbright Scholar, received a 2011 Guggenheim fellowship in film and video allowing her to complete this project.
[Image: Claudia Joskowicz “Every Building on Avenida Alfonso Ugarte - After Ruscha (14)” (2011) C-print 28 x 42 inches Edition of 5, 1AP]
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Schedule
from May 18, 2013 to June 23, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-05-18 from 18:00 to 21:00