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20/3/2013

Julieta Aranda

Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea Francesco Pantaleone, Palermo

Curated by Laura Barreca

Obscuring Smoke
Screening Smoke
Protecting Smoke
Marking Smoke
Smoke haze
Smoke blanket
Smoke curtain

Degrading the enemy's ability to see
Disrupting the enemy's ability to communicate
Concealing friendly forces
Deceiving the enemy
Providing a means to identify and signal
Degrading or defeating directed-energy weapons
Enhancing friendly weapon system effectiveness

Carried by the wind, smoke usually follows the contours of the earth’s surface. On flat, unbroken terrain and over water, smoke streamers take longer to spread out and mix with other streamers. Obstructions, such as trees and buildings, tend to break up smoke streamers. The streamers may then re-form, cover a larger area, and create a more uniform cloud than over open terrain. Large hill masses and very rugged terrain cause strong cross currents of wind and tend to create holes and uneven dispersal of the smoke cloud.

1. Use proper movement techniques and formations.
2. Time smoke support with decision points
3. Use unobscured weapons to overwatch
4. Do not become silhouetted by your own smoke
5. Engage the enemy through the smoke
6. Plan for enemy countermeasures
7. Plan for additional maneuver time under smoke
8. Maintain situational awareness
9. Know where the enemy is

We have seen them several times, the recent history is full of images of teargas against the crowd, of soldiers dressed up in disgusting armors scattering unarmed protesters. Not so long ago, the images of the Arab Spring have crossed the whole world through videos, tv news, but at the very beginning through low quality images taken with mobiles launched fast in the web and social networks. A bottom – up civil revolution, exploded as a virus, that has involved a crowd overwhelmed by a power that debased life conditions and limited social rights. This invisible enemy is called social tension, a condition that brings a country and its people back to seasons of rage, unsatisfaction, depression along with a lack of hopes for the future gathering together in a dangerous and unmanageable mix. It is the anger that leads to the scuffles, the indignation to the protests in the streets, that form of humiliation the community reacts to with an unexpected violence. Sometimes moments anticipate revolutions, or push to a radical change.

Julieta Aranda, used to question about the relations between person and community and the dynamics that move social behaviours, through media as well, tries to catch and make real the tension within a community, the existential discomfort of the contemporary society. The biggest depressions, they say, are the result of little, small frustrations, annihilation of the soul gathering together in a bigger discomfort. In this perspective Julieta Aranda translates the artist poetic role into an ethical engagement, aimed not to represent reality rather to interpret it, suggesting new and original keys finding in the smoke abstract rarefaction the allegory to explain the social discomfort.
Where There's Smoke comes from an ideal and ironic association: the indefinite shape of smoke, its intrusiveness, the set phrases suggesting different metaphors, starting from the title of this project, that means “wherever there is smoke, there is fire”. In the military strategies the smoke is a defence creating an unbreakable screen, able to hide movements either of vehicles or men to the enemy. In a figurative sense it represents the falsification of reality, changing the soul and mind awareness with confusing substances, compromising mind abilities. In her artworks, Julieta Aranda, prefers to explain not only political events but the consequent social feeling as well, the contradictions within the ordinary life. Not an ideological thought but a model of alternative and independent judgement. Within the exhibition low-fi footages of Manhattan roads and the smoke coming from the cement, turning the manhole cover into an imaginary pressure regulator of the earth; the black or white smoke of the Pope election, sticking to the tv set several people; the high column coming out from a fake volcano, blackening the sky with fear and concern...

more on http://www.fpac.it/site/julieta-aranda-2

Opening March 21st 2013 h.18:00/21:00

Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea Francesco Pantaleone (nuova sede)
via Vittorio Emanuele, 303 (Palazzo Di Napoli - Quattro Canti) - Palermo
orari: dal martredì al sabato dalle 10:00 alle 19:00

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