"Body Snatchers" Exhibition
WHITE BOX
This event has ended.
Identity today is anything but monolithic. Post-Black and Post-Latin American were concepts intrinsic to exhibitions presented in the beginning of the second millennium. Titled Freestyle (2001) and Ultra-Baroque (2000), respectively, these exhibitions proposed that any demographic or constituency is much too heterogeneous and nuanced to be adequately represented by the singularity of a totalizing narrative with its subtext of universality. For there are many factors that come into play that resist essentialist categorization making the notion of a Latin American aesthetic, for example, as nothing more than generalization. The variegated geo-cultural differences between Bolivians and Argentinians, thus necessitate a framing of subjectivity as being shaped as much by class, gender, and sexual orientation as by nationality.
But there is also a less affirmative notion of identity as having been unconsciously constructed and manipulated from without. The Marxian commodity fetish, by which a product is de-sublimated from want to a need, creates the ideal consumer perpetually seeking that external material object to fulfill the human existential void. Other philosophers have even described addictions, religion or the desire for membership to a particular class or political party, as falsely created needs where individuals behave like ghosts in a machine or in regards to the current exhibition, as having their "bodies snatched."
Consisting of painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation and works-on-paper, BODY SNATCHERS is an exhibition that focuses on the mutability of identity as well as the constructs by which agency is given form including the material and immaterial factors listed above. Although the works in BODY SNATCHERS are highly individuated in form and concept, they coalesce around the instability of a contemporary self that is protean and configured through myriad contexts from both within and without, both consciously and unconsciously.
Media
Schedule
from June 01, 2012 to June 15, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-06-01 from 18:00 to 21:00
Artist(s)
Javier Téllez, Kiki Seror, Damian Ontiveros, Abdul Vas, Oreet Ashery, Shelly Bahl, Domingo Sanchez Blanco, Firelei Baez, Martin Durazo, Shahram Entekhabi, Juan Carlos Granados, Paa Joe, Sangwoo Koh, Jesica "La Negra" Lopez, Kasper Sonne, Stanikas, Mookie Tenembaum, Michael Tong, Wojtek Ulrich, Ferran Martin, Matthew Weinstein, Isaac Aden, Eric Yahnker