Dora Garcia
dal 7/10/2009 al 30/1/2010
Segnalato da
7/10/2009
Dora Garcia
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea CGAC, Santiago de Compostela
Where do characters go when the story is over? Her work stresses communication between artist and audience: Art represents the world no more, it becomes a producer of realities, often on the verge of fiction, encouraging experimentation within the unidirectional sense of everyday events and analysing social patterns of behaviour. The exhibition presents 7 pieces which offer different "stages" of several works, whose definitive form is unpredictable.
Curated by Eva González-Sancho
Contrary to the idea that art is aimed at the general public, Dora García (Valladolid 1965) is interested in what attracts the attention of each individual, hence opting for radically conceptual forms, both accessible and elegant, and for projecting singularly codified messages or superimposing narratives to reality in a way that a specific relation with each of the spectators may arise.
The work of Dora García clearly stresses communication between artist and audience: Art represents the world no more, it becomes a producer of realities, often on the verge of fiction, encouraging experimentation within the unidirectional sense of everyday events and analysing social patterns of behaviour.
Where do characters go when the story is over? presents seven pieces, four of which have been entirely produced by the CGAC, that never attain a definitive form. What is really offered to the spectator are different "stages" of several works, whose definitive form is unpredictable. The pieces shown seem to "scheme" in order to fool the museum and the audience they face in "that which is to come" eternally, "transformation" or if preferred, "fictionalisation". All of which seem to converge into presenting the here and now in an endless array of possibilities.
The exhibition commences with a phrase written on a wall in gold leaf: Una buena pregunta debe evitar a toda costa una respuesta (2002) [A good question must avoid at all costs an answer], one of the many sentences that are part of the collection of gold phrases the artist started building in 2001. These aphorisms written in gold on the wall allow the artist to ridicule prejudices, clichés and conventions. La realidad es una ilusion muy persistente (2005) [Reality is a very persistent illusion] or El futuro debe ser peligroso (2005) [Future must be a dangerous place], are some examples.
Where do characters go when the story is over? presents seven pieces, four of which have been entirely produced for the CGAC, that never attain a definitive form. What is really offered to the spectator are different "stages" of several works, whose definitive form is unpredictable. The pieces shown here seem to "pull the leg" of museum and audience in a variety of respectful ways, where every encounter is in a process of becoming; where every event is instantly fictionalized. All of which seem to converge into presenting the here and now in an endless array of possibilities.
Many of the pieces by Dora García seem to observe the same structure; something outrageous is suggested in real form: a book printed backwards (Fahrenheit 451); a book which begs to be stolen (Steal This Book); an observer creating a duplicate of reality (Instant Narrative); a fictional character conversing with an art critic (Where do characters go when the story is over?). Reality accepts these absurdities and the work takes place, due to its inherent logic, with the slightest intervention by the author. The artist is reproduced, diluted, substituted, divided, supplanted and finally disappears
Image: Where Do Characters Go When The Story Is Over? video, 2009, 28 min. © Dora García
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