Juan Betancurth “All of these are made for you”
Baxter Street/ the Camera Club of NY
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BAXTER ST at CCNY presents Juan Betancurth curated by Regine Basha. Betancurth will present a selection of objects and photographs as well as work from a new series, Bouquet at 25, realized in collaboration with performer Aaron Philip and photographer Benjamin Fredrickson. This recent body of work investigates flowers and their specific capacity for exaltation or mourning. Considered through collage, performance and photography, the floral characters invoke the artist’s own Colombian roots and the rituals invested within them.
The new work signals the artist’s departure from tradition into more ambiguous terrain. Both tender and dark, like many of the objects in the room, the images from Bouquet at 25 reveal the results of a playful seduction taken almost to sadistic limits. In this triad scenario, Betancurth suggests a flexibility with control and trust, as well as with collaboration and ownership, which for the artist is a material as well.
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Schedule
from December 12, 2014 to January 03, 2015
Opening Reception on 2014-12-12 from 18:00 to 20:00