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12/7/2006

29th Pontevedra Art Biennial

Pazo da Cultura, Pontevedra

Off / Fora. Imaginary Movements between Galicia and the Southern Cone, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay

Curated by the Argentine Victoria Noorthoorn

The Biennial includes 29 artists from Argentina, Chile, Galicia and Uruguay that explore the phenomena of emigration, mobility and difference today. It will be the first European Biennial to give Latin America, and, specifically the Southern Cone, such a central position.

Off / Fora, explores emigration as a global, sociological, historical, cultural, and psychological phenomenon.
Off / Fora considers the four participating countries as representatives of the problems of the contemporary being in a transnational market where the migrant plays a central role.
Off / Fora delves into the question of how feelings of belonging, roots and place are constituted, and how ideas of nation, identity and tradition are problematized. These questions are explored from a wide perspective where the concept of identification is permanently re-constructed, and the stereotype challenged.
Off / Fora explores the situation of the migrant or the exile, on the basis of the notion of the artist as a political figure and symbolic analyst of domains, ideas, forms, and languages.
Off / Fora considers imagination of vital power for the subject; as it allows him to project change, to consider the possibility of migrating, and to visualize the existence of a different world for the future.
Off / Fora proposes a crossing of boundaries, where the artist takes the limit as a place of debate and extends the frontiers of his own practice. One of the strategies to effect this leap is fiction, understood as an imaginary journey.
Off / Fora establishes a dialogue in space that privileges resonance, echo, and disturbance over the refuge offered by narrative coherence or nationality.

Participating Artists:

Argentina: Eduardo Basualdo, Aili Chen, Marina De Caro, Ana Gallardo, Sebastian Gordin, Roberto Jacoby, Daniel Joglar, Patricio Larrambebere, Esteban Pastorino, and Judi Werthein.

Chile: Pablo Chiuminatto, Nury Gonzalez, Josefina Guilisasti, Mario Navarro

Galicia: Xose' Artiaga, Vari Carame's, Din Matamoro, Holga Me'ndez, Andre's Pinal, Carlos Rial, Diego Santome', and Xesus Vazquez.

Uruguay: Luis Camnitzer, Ricardo Lanzarini, Marco Maggi, Mario Sagradini, Martin Sastre, and Cecilia Vignolo.

Curatorial Team
Director: Jose' Carlos Valle Pe'rez / Curator: Victoria Noorthoorn
Advisors: Cecilia Brunson (Chile) / Miguel Fernandez-Cid (Galicia) / Gabriel Peluffo Linari (Uruguay)

Catalogue: The Biennial will publish a comprehensive catalogue, which will include essays by the Biennial’s Director, Curator and Advisors, Sociologists Arjun Appadurai, Saskia Sassen and Ramon Villares, as well as texts by the participating artists, and full-color illustrations on the artists’ works at the Biennial. Approximate number of pages: 250.

Symposium: The symposium will take place July 14 and 15, 2006. It will include presentations by Olivier Debroise, Ticio Escobar, Gabriel Pe'rez-Barreiro, Saskia Sassen, Virginia Torrente, and Ramon Villares, as well as by participating artists, to be moderated by the Biennial’s Curator and Advisors.

Support: Off / Fora counts with the sponsorship of the Ayuntamiento de Pontevedra, Xunta de Galicia, Caixanova, Dragados, and Fujitsu in Spain, as well as the support of the General Direction of Cultural Affaire of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, the Spanish Embassies in Argentina and Uruguay, the Spanish Cultural Centers in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, and Delmiro Me'ndez e Hijo S.A. The projects of the artists Aili Chen, Marina de Caro, Ana Gallardo, Holga Me'ndez, Esteban Pastorino and Judi Werthein are possible, in part, thanks to the generous support of the American Center Foundation.

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