The object and the image
(This is not a chair either).
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En ALUNA ART FOUNDATION.
MIAMI.
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Del 18 de marzo al 28 de junio (2017).
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Curated by Aluna Curatorial Collective (Adriana Herrera and Willy Castellanos), the exhibition brings back the quest of a group of international artists to exploit this subject. They work from different visions and approaches in the creation of a hybrid and highly polemic object – an alter object -, whose values move around the intersection of the constructive practices of installation, sculpture, and the documentation of an authorial experience, and whose final product is a photograph in itself.
In this sense, The Object and The Image (This is not a Chair Either), also exposes the artefact –the source of the exhibited photographs – uniting under one roof two instances traditionally separated in exhibition spaces: the image and its referent. This suitable coincidence will not only allow us a glimpse into the implicit mechanisms of image production, but will also propose to the spectator a journey through that zone that is neither the object nor its image: Rather, it is the mental process that transformed each artefact (in Latin “that which is made with art”) into a mine field that questions the stable condition of the “order of things,” and the concept of reality.
