Monika Bravo
dal 7/3/2002 al 6/4/2002
Segnalato da
7/3/2002
Monika Bravo
mullerdechiara, Berlin
The first Berlin solo show of A-Maze, an interactive video installation by New York video artist Monika Bravo. The artist utilizes imagery, industrial materials and technology to create illusions of recognizable landscapes and/or environments that examine the notion of space-time as a measure of reality.
"A-Maze"
müllerdechiara is pleased to announce the first Berlin solo show of A-Maze,
an interactive video installation by New York video artist Monika Bravo.
Monika Bravo utilizes imagery, industrial materials and technology to create
illusions of recognizable landscapes and/or environments that examine the
notion of space-time as a measure of reality. Hers is an art of seduction,
illusion and introspection where subject and representation exchange and
engage in conditions that can allow the mind to convey from one reality to
the next without the limit of boundaries.
A-Maze, invites the "spectator" to step on a floor matrix where, by
interacting, unconsciously becomes a "player". Unrelated sequences of
personal travels will load every time the participant activates one of the
25 pressure switches embedded in each tile of the floor matrix, which modify
randomly the result of the projected sequences. The spectator becomes the
vessel challenging the linearity and position of place and time, thus
creating a labyrinthine experience with Bravos evocative images and the
electronic sound by Flora & Fauna; consequently, the artist and player
interact between the "actual" and "registered" time.
On the floor matrix, fragments of stills taken from the videos are
interwoven with words from Borges poem ARS POETICA, written in the form of
labyrinths inspired by 17th century manuscripts. On the walls, in an
arbitrary, decorative scheme, hang abstract still frames -Itineraries- on
mirrored tiles. The viewer has the sensation of entering into a
hyper-aesthetic set, where no detail has been overlooked. The initial
places, from which the images were taken from, are made into objects
transforming the space into another place.
"September 10 2001, Uno nunca muere la vÃspera, is a single channel video
created by the artist while at residency at the World Trade Center on the
eve of the events. Originally recorded to be part of the sequences that
compose A-Maze, Bravo created an intimate and emotional document that
depicts an unusual thunderstorm from what would be the last day of the
buildings. This piece is dedicated in the memory of fellow artist Michael
Richards who perished while working at his studio.
Monika Bravo is a Colombian artist living in NY.
Her video installations and
films have been widely shown in such places as The New Museum of
Contemporary Art, MOMA, Ocularis, Museo del Barrio, the Lehman Gallery,
Lehman College in NYC and at the Tyler Gallery, Temple University,
Philadelphia. Aboutstudio/Aboutcafe in Bangkok, Sala RG in Caracas, Museo de
las Americas in San Juan Puerto Rico and at Ciocca Arte Contemporanea in
Milan. A_Maze will also be shown at dechiaragallery in NY in April 2002 and
at SITE Santa Fe in September 2002. She was part of the last residency at
the WORLD VIEWS Studio Program (LMCC) at the WTC and she was recently an
Artist-in-Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico. A-Maze, was
partly funded by the LMCC, NYSCA (electronic media award through Lehman
Gallery), NYANA and SOLOLAB.
Opening: 8.03.02, 7.00 p.m.
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