Lavar Munroe and Rodrigo Valenzuela “Disobedience”
Jenkins Johnson Projects
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Jenkins Johnson presents its 3rd project, Disobedience: Lavar Munroe and Rodrigo Valenzuela, which takes protest as a flash-point to explore current social and political unrest. Through new large-scale paintings, photographs, and a collaborative site-specific installation, Lavar Munroe and Rodrigo Valenzuela create a dialogue between their very different styles and mediums. Munroe, from the Bahamas, creates bright and colorful mixed media paintings that integrate found materials, while Valenzuela, from Chile, creates black and white photographs that capture temporary installations. Yet, both artists find a close correlation on how they think about and research their subject matter.
Looking at historical figures and current gestures of dissidence against colonialism and capitalism, the artists point to the aesthetics of protest to discuss their own socio-political position in America. In relation to what they have experienced in their native countries, the almost monthly marches in the United States can be critiqued as unhappy obedience with the political situation, rather than protest.
Lavar Munroe was selected for Trevor Schoonmaker’s Prospect 4 New Orleans and Okwui Enwzor’s 56th Venice Biennale, as well as the 2016 Dakar Biennale. He is currently preparing for a ten-year retrospective at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas and will be in the upcoming exhibition, African Metropolis at the MAXXI, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy. Rodrigo Valenzuela has had notable solo exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago, and was in Open Sessions 10 at the Drawing Center, New York. His film, The Unwaged, premiered at the Portland Art Museum in fall 2017.
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Schedule
from March 03, 2018 to April 14, 2018
Opening Reception on 2018-03-03 from 16:00 to 19:00