Estrategia
dal 16/4/2008 al 21/6/2008
Segnalato da
16/4/2008
Estrategia
Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
Artists from Brazil. This exhibition brings together a group of Brazilian artists connected by their focus on systems and technology. Works by DuVa, Cadu, Edouard Fraipont, Guto Nobrega, MimoSa, Ricardo Bausbaum.
This exhibition brings together a group of Brazilian artists
connected by their focus on systems and technology. Currently in
Brazil there is the emergence of appropriated technology in
contemporary art and culture. The agenda of these artists is to break
the mould, play with systems and create new ways of operating.
In April last year Plymouth Arts Centre’s curator Paula Orrell
travelled to Brazil to look research current practice by contemporary
artists. The exhibition Estrategia (translated as Strategies) shows
this work together in the UK for the first time. It reveals a
fascinating insight into contemporary culture in Brazil and considers
how access to media and technology is a political issue.
The exhibition includes Cadu’s acclaimed process-based drawing
works. MimoSa is an artists’ collective and workshop that moves
around Brazilian cities. They underline the politics inherent in the
access to technology; and are motivated by the idea that people start
to think critically about media when they start to produce their own.
DuVa’s process of video editing reveals transcendental moments in
moving images of the body. Edouard Fraipont experiments with light
exposures to create photographs with an extraordinary metaphysical
aesthetic.
The exhibition interrogates technology on many levels, suggesting
that these systems are not nearly complex or sensitive enough to
contain human culture. The work raises issues around our relationship
to landscape, social politics, the body and the transcendental
Plymouth Arts Centre
38 Looe Street - Plymouth