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8/5/2003

Carlos Amorales

Tate Modern, London

AMORALES v AMORALES

9 May 2003 7.30pm

Free: no ticket required as this event is part of Tate & Egg Live:free

Working with professional Mexican Wrestlers, Carlos Amorales will choreograph a one-off performance in the Turbine Hall for Tate & Egg Live.

Amorales’ work examines identity, role-play, and spectacle in the contexts of dance culture and popular Mexican wrestling. Using masks and costumes, including ‘branded’ sportswear called ‘flames’ designed by the artist, Amorales explores the extent to which it is possible to play out fantasy and swap identity through costume and ritualized movement.

Drinks from the Egg bar.
Late opening of Tate Modern collection displays and exhibitions.

Carlos Amorales was born in 1970 in Mexico and now lives in Amsterdam. The political implications of his work are explicitly apparent in his installation titled ‘Flames Maquiladora’ at the South London Gallery’s exhibition ‘20 Million Mexicans Can’t be Wrong’ (2002). Amorales set up a sweatshop-like production line for the fabrication of wrestlers’ trainers. Playing with the notion that interaction releases audiences from passive consumption, Amorales was in fact exploiting the Western gallery as labourers.

Amorales’s performance and video has been included in solo and group shows in Europe and Mexico, including Migros Museum, Zurich, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, and recently in ‘Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values’ at PS1, New York, 2002. Carlos Amorales will represent Holland in the annual Venice Biennale of art, 2003.

Tate Modern
Turbine Hall
Bankside, London

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