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Places unfolded
The spectacular transfer of human abilities to technological media, and the new demands arising out of new notions of subjectivity, community and the globalised environment in recent history are changing comprehension of space, time and place. These facts, among others, are generating substantial changes in the forms of human knowledge and its experience. In this context, artists today recognise these transformations and demonstrate them through various ideas implied in the creation of spaces, testing other forms of presenting art through a diversity of practices and materials. Among other aspects, by questioning our visual and intellectual customs many artworks allow us to reconsider the question of “place” – in art, in history and in our perceptions through art itself.
The main thrust of this exhibition is to show how each of the three artists from Rio Grande do Sul, Elaine Tedesco, Karin Lambrecht and Lúcia Koch, addresses the experience of place. Common to each in this focus is the idea of unfolding, which appears in each artist’s work in deeply individual ways.
Through very diverse, sometimes antagonistic artistic principles, from living matter to the image, from filtered light to installation or painting, these three artists enable the spectator to reconsider some of the distinct threads of the art of our times – and perhaps through them to deepen considerations of the heterogeneous nature of the contemporary cultural experience, through a constant discussion of the places of art and their unfolding, across the range of enriching dialogues made possible by this exhibition.
Mônica Zielinsky
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