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this dialogue using their own altered objects of knowledge. We could say ASSISTANT CURATOR: STEPHANIE MAUCH
that this practice of transforming the objects and situations in which we INSTALLATION DESIGN: BEVK & PEROVIC ARCHITECTS
live everyday is a way of transforming the passage of time and the way This exhibition explores a constellation of themes related to the effects
we assimilate the economics and politics of the instruments of living. We of political, economic and social crises in the developing world. The show
could say, also, that the fact that this practice has become a recurrent tool does not attempt to fully document this situation, but to explore the ways
for many contemporary artists all over the world, is a sign of its political in which artists and architects have reacted and react to these set of
power, as the individual can transform and communicate its own reality conditions. Notions of sustainability, self-organization and the articulation
and, with simple means, make these altered objects the materials and of various forms of aesthetic agency as forms of resistance are recurrent
tools of our revolutionary mornings. The human scale is a constant in all in the show, as it is die powerful image of one of the most shocking and
the works presented here. The irony of thinking, the immediate gesture, imposing evidences of these conditions in the city, the overwhelming
the fragility of intimacy, and the meticulous violence of transforming the presence of the shanty towns. The show will thus trace their presence
familiar, makes these artists? Work relevant to understand a powerful in die cultural imaginary of the developing world, and introduce the
tendency in the art practice of today (Gabriel Orozco). shanty as the object of a number of recent anthropological, urban and
socio-economic studies.
THE STRUCTURE OF SURVIVAL The Structure of Survival attempts to interrogate a number of assumptions
CURATED BY CARLOS BASUALDO about what constitutes a ‘crisis” and how it manifest itself both in art

Damian Ortega
Cosmic Thing, 2002
Beetle 83, stainless steel
wire, plexiglass
Dimensions variable
Unique sculpture

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