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LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
58TH INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION

BULGARIA
How We Live
HOW WE LIVE 2019 Commissioner: Iara Boubnova, National Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria.
© RADA BOUKOVA Curator: Vera Mlechevska.
COURTESY THE ARTIST
Exhibitors: Rada Boukova , Lazar Lyutakov.
Venue: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi Onlus, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, San Marco 2893

“How We Live” is a visual dialogue of two individual works by Rada
Boukova and by Lazar Lyutakov, which reflect on the concept of
centuries-old craft traditions juxtaposed with large-scale industrial
production of standard and accessible commodities that intrude into
the contemporary living environment. The works were developed
specially for the space in the Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, the history
of which dates back to the 17th century and relies on semantic
and visual opposition to the architectural and historical context
of both the building and the city of Venice. In fact both artists
transform serial modular sequencing, which is the basis of their
compositions, into a generic world of forms where both logic and
functionality collapse into the abyss of the imagination. According to
Rada Boukova: “After the ultimate industrialization in our life, there
came a kind of repetitiveness where it appears that everything is
a subject to the principle of modular construction, often referred
to as normalization. You buy one item, then add another one, then
another and they are all made so as to fit in with one another. For its
part, the work that makes it possible for you to acquire things is of a
standardized and segmented nature and devoid of any overall
viewpoint.” (excerpt)

CHILE

Altered Views
VOLUSPA JARPA
03 - AGUSTÍN PÉREZ Commissioner: China Arts and Entertainment Group Ltd. (CAEG).
RUBIO AND VOLUSPA Curator: Wu Hongliang.
JARPA Exhibitors: Chen Qi, Fei Jun, He Xiangyu, Geng Xue.
Venue: Arsenale

Voluspa Jarpa’s work is an invitation to reflect on racism, patriarchy,
economic interests and dominance as forms of colonialism. The
artist will present “Altered Views”, her new research project, curated
by Spanish curator Agustín Pérez Rubio. A never before seen piece
of work which serves as a junction of several cases in European
history between the 17th and 20th centuries, riddled with social
expressions, ethnographic research and dominant powers, which
intends to invert the exoticism of the colonised subject back to the
coloniser. “Altered Views” develops a narrative which establishes
links through the revision of European History and its approach as
to non-hegemonic regions. The exhibition path unravels throughout
several different fields of research and reviews historic “cases”
which invite the public to question hegemonic views in regards to
great historic accounts. The project is the result of years of research
into the reality of Latin American countries through CIA declassified
documents. It is composed of three reversed cultural spaces/
models: The Hegemony Museum, the Subaltern Portrait Gallery and
the Emancipating Opera. Voluspa is one of our most influential
artists, assisted with the remarkable experience of Agustín Pérez
Rubio, an internationally renowned curator. We are certain that this
will be a landmark in Chilean participation”. (excerpt)

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