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SKIN: Extreme Pleasure, Extreme Pain
Uruguayans send to Mediations, "Skin: Extreme Pleasure, Extreme Pain", which results from the research of the sensitivity of an organ of our body, exposed to the elements of nature, ideology, cultural history and the political body for excellence. South America has its natural skin mix, which is a result of millennia of pre-European, colonial, and modern history. Mythology, racism, slavery, and migration support this amazing fabric that is our skin, and its metaphors.
5 artists and a curator / artist offer to the Polish and international public six different proposals, in which the skin is the protagonist and the axis of an ethical and aesthetic discourse.
Video artists, such as Enrique Aguerre and Fernando Alvarez Cozzi, propose two different visions, one being a highly political connotation of the recent dictatorial past and the deaths of our compatriots in our waters, and the other being the skin as a geography of scientific testing, pathology, and love itself. A skin deep homage to other artists that are displayed in the center of pain and physical collapse.
Turell creates a double standard: the plotting of the skin of human beings, animals (existing or extinct), with an air of scientific environment such as that of the late nineteenth century, with the idea of skin overlapping wallpaper and furniture. This is a combination of museology with the scientific study of the skin.
For Gustavo Tabares, blackness takes over. All the anger and the truth behind the rights of Afro-Uruguayans, which is synchronized with Afro-Brazilian sentiments of today, has been felt since the beginning of five centuries of slavery. This feeling still survives in a land where skin color at one time was an impassable border. As time goes on our society increasingly explores mixtures and exchanges of cultures and ancient rituals.
Soledad Capurro, a costume designer, makes her animal skin clothes. These are hairless costumes, just the brutal skin of the animal, with its sculptural shape placed over a human form.
Badaró , finally, will have a performance for one week. His images will be placed on a giant piece of cloth throughout the exhibition. It will be a great metaphor of our collective skin vs. the individual experiences narrated by visitors of the Biennial.
photos:
Enrique Badaró Nadal
Fernando Alvarez Cozzi
Soledad Capurro
Alejandro Turell
5 artists and a curator / artist offer to the Polish and international public six different proposals, in which the skin is the protagonist and the axis of an ethical and aesthetic discourse.
Video artists, such as Enrique Aguerre and Fernando Alvarez Cozzi, propose two different visions, one being a highly political connotation of the recent dictatorial past and the deaths of our compatriots in our waters, and the other being the skin as a geography of scientific testing, pathology, and love itself. A skin deep homage to other artists that are displayed in the center of pain and physical collapse.
Turell creates a double standard: the plotting of the skin of human beings, animals (existing or extinct), with an air of scientific environment such as that of the late nineteenth century, with the idea of skin overlapping wallpaper and furniture. This is a combination of museology with the scientific study of the skin.
For Gustavo Tabares, blackness takes over. All the anger and the truth behind the rights of Afro-Uruguayans, which is synchronized with Afro-Brazilian sentiments of today, has been felt since the beginning of five centuries of slavery. This feeling still survives in a land where skin color at one time was an impassable border. As time goes on our society increasingly explores mixtures and exchanges of cultures and ancient rituals.
Soledad Capurro, a costume designer, makes her animal skin clothes. These are hairless costumes, just the brutal skin of the animal, with its sculptural shape placed over a human form.
Badaró , finally, will have a performance for one week. His images will be placed on a giant piece of cloth throughout the exhibition. It will be a great metaphor of our collective skin vs. the individual experiences narrated by visitors of the Biennial.
photos:
Enrique Badaró Nadal
Fernando Alvarez Cozzi
Soledad Capurro
Alejandro Turell
