Emilio Chapela “Man is the Measure”
Henrique Faria Fine Art
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The title of Emilio Chapela’s exhibition Man is the Measure takes its name from a phrase by Protagoras (5th Century BCE), the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher who said, “man is the measure of all things”. The show contains a number of works that deal with the issue of boundaries and borders and maps from a human scale and perspective.
The issue of boundaries as an element of exclusion was dealt with by Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Pure Reason by completely separating ideas like rationality and sensation, knowledge and faith, among others.[1] Since then, different philosophers, such as Hegel have tackled the subject of boundaries as dialectical relations in which to denote borders as well as their nexus. [2]
The political atmosphere in which Kant was forming his ideas was one in which the notion of the Nation-State was being developed. Although this concept first appeared in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, in this later understanding the nation appears tied to territorial boundaries for the first time and is presented as an entity that divides and excludes.
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Schedule
from March 26, 2014 to May 10, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-03-26 from 18:00 to 21:00