El neon de los narquitectos

2012 - Sculpture (Sculpture)

Julio Cesar Morales

location: San Francisco, California
year born: 1966
gender: male
nationality: Mexican
home town: Tijuana, Mexico

Born in Tijuana, Mexico, San Francisco-based Julio Cesar Morales explores issues of labor, memory, surveillance technologies, and identity strategies.


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Until It Makes Sense
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Mario Garcia Torres

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Mario Garcia Torres imagines cinematic devices to replay stories occasionally forgotten by Conceptual art...

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Abraham Cruzvillegas

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Perro en Tlalpan (Dog in Tlalpan)
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Gabriel Orozco

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Gabriel Orozco often documents found situations in the natural or urban landscape...

¿Quién medirá el espacio, quién me dirá el momento?, 1 (columna alfarero)
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Mariana Castillo Deball

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Taking archaeology as her departure point to examine the trajectories of replicated and displaced objects, “Who will measure the space, who will tell me the time?” was produced in Oaxaca for her exhibition of the same title at the Contemporary Museum of Oaxaca (MACO) in 2015...

LAB
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Kori Newkirk

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LAB (2013) conjures the body as the trace of a sooty hand appears, spectrally, on a crumpled paper towel...

Up All Night, Waiting for the Chelsea Hotel Magic to Spark my Creativity
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Mario Garcia Torres

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In Up All Night, Waiting for the Chelsea Hotel Magic to Spark My Creativity Mario García Torres constructs and documents a hypothetical scene, situating himself within a lineage of artists and creatives that used to congregate at the historic hotel...

Tribute to Inside Looking Out - For the male artists along my way
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Wong Wai Yin

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In this work the artist stages a humorously violent “intervention” against male-dominated cultures of art production in present-day China...

The Cloud of Unknowing
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Ho Tzu Nyen

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The Cloud of Unknowing (2011) is titled after a 14th-century medieval treatise on faith, in which “the cloud of unknowing” that stands between the aspirant and God can only be evoked by the senses, rather than the rational mind...

Cemetery #1
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Gabriel Orozco

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Gabriel Orozco comments: “In the exhibition [Documenta 11, Kassel, 2002], I tried to connect with the photographs I took in Mali in July...

Why fear the future?
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Carlos Amorales

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Produced on the occasion of an exhibition at ARTIUM of Alava, Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art, this deck of cards is a selection of images from Carlos Amorales’s Liquid Archive...

I can’t believe we are still protesting
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Wong Wai Yin

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Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...

I can’t believe we are still protesting
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Wong Wai Yin

2021

Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...

TWO MILLION (Hong Kong Dollar)
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Kwan Sheung Chi

2013

One Million is a video work depicting the counting of bills...

100 Hand drawn maps of my country, Tel Aviv / Jerusalem
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Shilpa Gupta

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These hand drawn maps are part of an ongoing series begun in 2008 in which Gupta asks ordinary people to sketch outlines of their home countries by memory...

Good Life
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Danh Vo

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Good life (2007) is an installation displaying letters, documents, photographs and objects from a man named Joseph Carrier, and appropriated by artist Danh Vo...

Fridge-Freezer
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