Nascimento / Lovera
dal 1/5/2001 al 3/6/2001
Segnalato da
1/5/2001
Nascimento / Lovera
Gasworks Gallery, London
Video-ediciones/inserciones. Gasworks Gallery would like to introduce our upcoming exhibiton with Venezeulan artists Nascimento/Lovera. Video Still - Jesus Christ Superstar. In their first show in London Venezuelan video, film and installation artists Nascimento/Lovera will exhibit a selection from their ongoing video editing project. Like video-terrorists Nascimento/Lovera re-edit popular films in order to deconstruct the familiar and expected narrative. They have rescued film sequences from their original context, eschewing traditional codes of film narrative and disrupting audience expectation.
Video-ediciones/inserciones. Gasworks Gallery would like to introduce our upcoming exhibiton with Venezeulan artists Nascimento/Lovera.
Video Still - Jesus Christ Superstar
In their first show in London Venezuelan video, film and installation artists
Nascimento/Lovera will exhibit a selection from their ongoing video editing
project. Like video-terrorists Nascimento/Lovera re-edit popular films in order
to deconstruct the familiar and expected narrative. They have rescued film
sequences from their original context, eschewing traditional codes of film
narrative and disrupting audience expectation.
Through this process of selection and reordering Nascimento/Lovera pose an
alternative discourse and re-work the conventional codes of film-making. This
manipulation of a constructed cultural product is analogous to an ongoing
critique of other apparently invulnerable historical discourses. Examples from
this project include a re-ordering of Love Story with no love scenes and a
modified version of Jesus Christ Superstar which has been reduced to five
minutes of pure biblical landscape. A martial arts movie is thematically
transformed into a melodrama freed of its fight scenes and a classic Hollywood
western becomes a Spanish speaking tragedy.
Nascimento/Lovera will exhibit a selection of works from this video-editing
project in a site specific installation at Gasworks. Their video Jesus Christ
Superstar has been screened at the Pandemonium Biennial of Moving Images at the
Lux in March this year.
Juan and Daniela are the recipients of the prestigious Sala Mendoza prize, and
will be resident artists at Gasworks from April. They have exhibited both
individually and together in Venezuela, Brazil, Toronto and New York.
Preview - Wed May 2nd 6-9pm
This Exhibition is supported by Sala Mendoza, The British Council, and London
Arts.
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