Cristina Lucas
dal 30/6/2010 al 25/9/2010
Segnalato da
30/6/2010
Cristina Lucas
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
TLight Years. he exhibition features a broad selection of the artist's work produced in the last seven years, and two commissioned pieces: Light Years and La Liberte' Raisonnee, a video where the artist enacts the pictorial image of the well known painting Liberty leading the People (1830) by Eugene Delacroix. Creating a sequence in which the figures in the composition come to life, the 'unpetrification' of liberty in Lucas's work, rather than celebrating an act of emancipation it becomes a tragic history.
Curated by Inti Guerrero
Light Years. Cristina Lucas, concentrates on her recent work, putting into dialogue drawings, photographs, videos and installations where the artist herself, other people, actors or even live animals confront the symbols, myths and metaphors of the foundations of western patriarchal dominance. The use of satire within Lucas’s practice produces a moral ambivalence, which unsettles any fixation on a historical victimization of women, concerning their social visibility and mobility in the public sphere. The criticality in her work can be found precisely in the stereotypical, literal representation and overexposure of the significance of signs and symbols in both misogynist traditions and feminism’s own agendas and contested genealogy.
In recent years, Cristina Lucas has shown a painstaking interest on unsettling and confronting directly the mechanisms of power, its institutions and the processes of subjectivisation which these generate, especially those that have collaborated in the historical hierarchy between the sexes. In her work, the use of satirical narrative, fantasy images and dream-like settings always seem to lead the spectator to an ambivalent position in relation to how to produce an immediate judgment to reach a personal opinion on patriarchy, sexism, domestication and women’s ongoing battle to ensure that their representation in the public sphere is not limited exclusively to legislation but also in the cultural modifications of societies.
The exhibition features a broad selection of the artist’s work produced in the last seven years, and two commissioned pieces: Light Years and La Liberté Raisonnée, a video where the artist enacts the pictorial image of the well known painting Liberty leading the People (1830) by Eugène Delacroix. Creating a sequence in which the figures in the composition come to life, the ‘unpetrification’ of liberty in Lucas’s work, rather than celebrating an act of emancipation it becomes a tragic history.
Cristina Lucas Bio
Cristina Lucas (Jaén, Spain 1973. Lives and works between Madrid and Paris) is a former resident of the Rijksakademie and received her BFA from both the Universidad Complutence de Madrid and the University of California, Irvine. Her most recent solo exhibitions include: Talk, Stedelijk Museum de Schiedam, Holanda, 2007 y Cain y las hijas de Eva, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, 2007. Her work has been included in numerous international exhibitions including (selection): Dominó Canibal, PAC, Murcia, 2010; Eurasia. Geographic cross-overs in art, MART, Rovereto, Italia 2008; The Furious Gaze, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria, 2008; Altadis, Palais de Tokio, Paris, 2004 y The Real Royal Trip, Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, 2004. Her work has also formed part of the biennials: En vivo contacto, 28 Bienal de Sao Paulo, 2008; Optimism in the age of global war, 10 Bienal de Estambul, 2007 y Belief, 1 Bienal de Singapur, 2004. Lucas’s work can be found in the collections of international museums such as the Kiasma (Helsinki), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) and MUSAC (León).
Inti Guerrero Bio
Inti Guerrero is an art critic and curator born in Bogotá, Colombia and based in Amsterdam where he fulfilled De Appel’s Curatorial Program. He is a former Curator-in-Residence of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin and Capacete Entretenimentos, Rio de Janeiro. He fulfilled studies on History and Theory of Art & Architecture, and General History at Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia and Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil.
These exhibition is posible whith the sponsor of SEACEX (Sociedad estatal pare la Accion Cultural Exterior), el Goboerno de Espana-Ministerio de Aasuntos Exteriores y de Cooperacion/ AECID.
Image: Tu también puedes caminar, 2007 Video, 9 min
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Opening 1 July 2010, 19h
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil
Av. Revolucion 1608 C.P. 01000 cd.de Mexico - San Angel
Hours: tue-sun 10 - 18
Admission: $15.00 (quince pesos)
Estudiantes y profesores con credencial vigente:
$9.00 (nueve pesos)