Modernity & Aesthetics of the New Black Atlantic
dal 9/7/2010 al 21/8/2010
Segnalato da
9/7/2010
Modernity & Aesthetics of the New Black Atlantic
Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
An exhibition by The State of L3 (Armin Kane, Antonio Jose Guzman, Felipe Peres Calheiros) exploring the connection between migration, visual culture and African heritage. Based in Amsterdam, Dakar and Recife, The State of L3 has created a rhizomatic network of artworks and artists working with multimedia exchanges, projects, videos and internet archive.
From the 10th July, SMART Project Space presents Modernity & Aesthetics of the New Black Atlantic, an exhibition by The State of L3 (Armin Kane, Antonio Jose Guzman, Felipe Peres Calheiros) exploring the connection between migration, visual culture and African heritage. Based in Amsterdam, Dakar and Recife, The State of L3 has created a rhizomatic network of artworks and artists working with multimedia exchanges, projects, videos and internet archive.
Throughout their work the concept of Afrofuturism plays a key role, a literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy and magic realism with non-Western cosmologies in order to interrogate, and re-examine historical events of the past.
The exhibition includes the Dogon L3 Voyager for Interstellar Planetary Travel, a cinema boat showing work that 18 artists from the collective made for the project, and the installation Transatlantic Sacred Sites of the State, a multi-channel video installation based on parts of A.J. Guzman’s film trilogy The Day We Surrender to the Air, as well as parts of the State of L3 collective films. Last but not least the exhibition includes The Mysterious Universe of the Marabout's, a “micro altar installation” with small sculptures by Antonio Jose Guzman.
The State of L3 recently participated in the latest edition of the Dak’art biennale and will exhibit at MUHKA, Antwerp in Autumn 2010. The exhibition at SMART Project Space partly coincides with a presentation in Galerie 23, Amsterdam. See also http://www.stateofl3.com/
For interviews, more information, video and photo material, please contact
Simon van Cleeff, Tel +31 (0)20 427 59 51 or e-mail simon@smartprojectspace.net
Opening Saturday 10 July 2010, 21.00 hrs
Smart Project Space
Arie Biemondstraat 105-113, Amsterdam
Open: Mon-Sat 12:00-22:00, Sun from 14
Admission free