Taking as a starting point a dislocated reading of Georges Bataille’s The Accursed Share (1949), this exhibition seeks to continue reflecting on violence, but now through the work of three contemporary artists.
In El caso de las cajitas de agua (2003), Josefina Guilisasti takes a police case from history to elaborate, in seven parts, a severed body on a kitchen table, pieces wrapped in packages with newspaper and oilcloth tablecloth. The murderer is Rosa Faúndez and in her is embodied the precarious labor of a domestic and marginal economy that falls with all its weight on the female body.
In El ladrillo (2018-2019), Patrick Hamilton exhibits a series of archives that allow us to reread the ways in which neoliberalism was implemented in Chile through a «shock therapy» that ended up becoming a way of life.
In Christian Salablanca’s video Two Stones (2017), the clash of the two fists and the reverberation of the dry sound of the blows activate the memory of all the violence and resistance that have constituted the bitter plot of history.
In these works, violence is presented as a traumatic memory. And if trauma means wound or violation, the visual operations exhibited here emerge themselves dismembered, broken or hurting. From there, from that condition, they invite us to think about the way in which the images of art can resist the violence of the world.
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October, 2022
And suddenly, there was no longer a shore. Part two.
Various artists
This two-part exhibition takes as its starting point the tension between humidity and dryness. Through a movement between both qualities, the works gathered here explore aspects such as landscape, eroticism, language, colonial memory, extractive violence, crisis and regeneration of the planet. This first exhibition explores the possibilities of the liquid and the second will focus […]
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