The three cut-outs are made of three aerial photographs coming from the archives of the Ecuadorian Military Geographic Institute. These are views of the Amazon forest. The photographs are cut following an optical illusion pattern called “reversible cubes” or “tumbling blocks”, based on the Necker cube, a multistable object of psychophysics that is constantly switching perspectives. This oscillation is similar to the shaman in his ability to move between human and non-human points of view.
Rometti Costales is an artistic collaboration between Julia Rometti and Victor Costales that began in 2007. Their research has led them to South America, and particularly Brazil and Ecuador, where Costales has also lived. During their research trips, the artist duo develop a form of attention to the environment, traditions, and micro-histories of the places they visit. Their work is based on their personal readings of environmental and cultural situations and an understanding of philosophical and anthropological debates on the relationship between nature and culture.
Central Region by Tanatchai Bandasak is a meditation on materiality and time-based media centres on the mysterious, prehistoric ‘standing stones’ of Hintang in Northern Laos: little-studied megaliths which have survived thousands of years of political change and the cataclysmic carpet-bombing of Laos by the United States during the Cold War...
After the decade-long conflict (1996-2006) that ended with Nepal becoming a Federal Democratic Republic, political unrest and weak governance continued to mark the country’s future as daily life repeatedly witnessed ruptures...
Iván Argote’s As Far As We Could Get comprises a series of video chapters made in the municipality of Palembang, Indonesia and the small town of Neiva, Colombia...
Société Anonyme: Week 5 March 3 – 16, 2008 Saturday, March 8, from 6 – 9 p.m Presentation of “Art conceptuel, une entologie” (Editions MIX, edited by Gauthier Herrmann, Fabrice Reymond & Fabien Vallos) “Art Conceptuel, une entologie” is a collective translation experience of 278 conceptual artworks, most of them available for the first time in French...
In Greek mythology, Arachne was a talented mortal weaver who challenged Athena, goddess of wisdom and crafts, to a weaving contest; this hubris resulted in her being transformed into a spider...
The Wings by Pichet Piaklin is a creation story of fragility, where the desire for freedom is mired in blood red by the inculcation of faith and violence...
Hyunjin Kim on Frequencies of Tradition Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 7.30 pm at California College of the Arts Hyunjin Kim, KADIST’s former Lead Curator for Asia (2017-2020), will discuss Frequencies of Tradition , the culmination of an eponymous series of exhibitions and programs initiated by KADIST in 2018...
Cluster Illusion examines the brain’s tendency to recognize a pattern as something abstract...