Julieta Aranda
dal 8/4/2009 al 18/7/2009
Segnalato da
8/4/2009
Julieta Aranda
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Intervals is an experimental new series conceived to take place in interstitial locations within the museum's exhibition spaces or beyond the physical confines of the building. The program, which invites a diverse range of emerging artists to create new work for a succession of solo presentations, is inaugurated with a site-specific installation by Aranda that activates unlikely spaces within Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic rotunda. Her multimedia, project-based work has frequently focused on the dissemination of information and the agency of the individual in contemporary society.
curated by by Nancy Spector and Katherine Brinson
From April 10 to July 19, 2009, the Guggenheim Museum will inaugurate
Intervals, a new contemporary art series, with a multipart
installation by Julieta Aranda (b. 1975, Mexico City).
In Aranda's presentation, four conceptually related works propose an
alternative notion of temporal experience as a shifting and
unquantifiable state, liberated from rigid conventions of
measurement. In an interstitial space near the museum's staircase, a
peephole reveals the image of an hourglass, a traditional symbol of
mortality. Viewed through the refracting optical device of a camera
obscura, the grains of sand appear to flow upward in a startling
reversal of time's passage. Nearby, patches of paint on the walls
recall the look of covered-up street graffiti, rendered
indecipherable yet retaining a ghostly presence in the urban
landscape. Here Aranda has transcribed quotations about time drawn
from sources that span more than 2,000 years. Using phosphorescent
paint, the words become visible only when the space is darkened,
momentarily recovering the erased language.
One floor above, Aranda has installed an oversized clock in which the
day is divided into 10 elongated hours. This system references decimal
time, a short-lived initiative introduced during the rationalizing
fervor of the French Revolution that reorganized the day into 10
hours, containing 100 minutes of 100 seconds each. While the clock
pays homage to this act of iconoclasm, the movement of the second
hand represents an entirely subjective experience of time,
corresponding directly to the fluctuating rate of the artist's own
heartbeat over the course of one day. The time it takes for the clock
to complete a revolution of 100 seconds therefore varies according to
Aranda's behavior and state of mind: it ticks faster during moments
of excited activity and slower during periods of rest. In an
accompanying sound piece, a transistor radio emits a recording of
this heart rate, suggesting the nuanced tempo of human experience.
Aranda's multimedia, project-based work has frequently focused on the
dissemination of information and the agency of the individual in
contemporary society. In collaborative projects with Anton Vidokle,
such as an itinerant, freely available archive of videos (e-flux
Video Rental, 2004– ) and an operative store where artists could
hock their works (Pawnshop, 2007), she has reinvented existing
systems of commerce and circulation as part of an ongoing project to,
in her own words, "generate viable propositions for alternative
transactions of cultural capital."
Intervals was initiated by Chief Curator Nancy Spector as an
experimental series to allow the museum to respond quickly to
innovations and new developments in contemporary art as they arise.
Conceived to take place in the interstices of the museum's exhibition
spaces or beyond the physical confines of the building, the program
will invite a diverse range of artists to create new work for a
succession of solo presentations.
Following Aranda's exhibition, a series of subsequent Intervals
projects will be presented each year. The second Intervals
presentation, featuring Berlin-based artist Kitty Kraus, is planned
for fall 2009, with further projects under development for 2010.
Intervals: Julieta Aranda is organized by Nancy Spector and Katherine
Brinson, Assistant Curator.
The exhibition series is funded by the generous contributions of the
Intervals Leadership Committee. Chaired by Young Collectors Council
member Jeremy Steinke, the group comprises high-level Guggenheim
members who are committed to the realization of Intervals projects
and who enjoy a privileged insight into the processes behind them
through dialogue with the curators and artists.
Wednesday, April 29 at 6:30 p.m., Aranda will give a lecture as part
of the museum's Elaine Terner Cooper Education Fund Conversations
with Contemporary Artists. A reception with the artist will follow.
For additional information please contact:
Claire Laporte
Media Relations Associate Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Phone: 212 4233840 E-mail: pressoffice@guggenheim.org
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