Lara Almarcegui
dal 18/6/2008 al 11/7/2008
Segnalato da
La Box - Ecole nationale superieure d'art de Bourge
18/6/2008
Lara Almarcegui
La Box - Ecole nationale superieure d'art de Bourge, Bourges
Colocation #6. Combining an empirical approach to the urban environment, the city and the built habitat with an expert understanding of architecture, construction and space appropriation, the work of Spanish artist Lara Almarcegui spotlights the materiality and the temporality that give the impression of a living, breathing built environment.
Curators : Elena Yaichnikova et Nicolas Audureau
Demolition
Combining an empirical approach to the urban environment, the city and the built habitat with an expert understanding of architecture, construction and space appropriation, the work of Spanish artist Lara Almarcegui spotlights the materiality and the temporality that give the impression of a living, breathing built environment. Her observation of wastelands, construction processes, displacements and demolition involves a reflexive approach to order, power-sharing and the laws that govern our lives, but is also marked by a certain ingenuousness and a poetry that subvert the coercive harshness of the city. In this final segment of the Colocation (Living Together) program at La box_ENSA in Bourges, Lara Almarcegui homes in on the building that contains the exhibition space with an evocation of its disappearance.
Colocation [Living Together ]
The starting point for the programme Colocation [Living Together ] was a series of invitations to artists to create projects specifically for la box. Each contribution is integrated into the la box space and the economic and social context of the city of Bourges, and raises various questions about the nature of artistic actions: the artist's civic and ethical responsibility, reassessment of issues according to context, and place of a specific research in art. Plus, ultimately, the need for coexistence based on the sharing of resources.
With the backing of the Ministry of Culture and Communications, the Centre Region Cultural Affairs Department, the City of Bourges, the Centre for Cultural Studies and Development and the Mondriaan Foundation.
opening: Thursday 19 June at 6pm
presentation: Thursday 19 June at 4:30pm
La Box - Ecole nationale superieure d'art de Bourge
9 rue Edouard Branly - Bourges