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6 Artists Working In Tijuana<\/p>\n
Featuring Works By: Mely Barrag\u00e1n, Miguel Fern\u00e1ndez, Hugo Lugo, Mayra Huerta, Daniel Ruanova, Shinpei Takeda<\/p>\n
Opens Friday July 23 6:30-9:30p.m.<\/p>\n
Curated by Marcela Quiroz<\/p>\n
“Sharing a secret isn\u2019t knowing it or breaking its promise, it is sharing something ignored: nothing known, nothing that can be determined.” ~J. DERRIDA<\/p>\n
In one of her least know essays, Spanish philosopher, Mar\u00eda Zambrano makes an intriguing commentary regarding artistic practice. Discarding the useless attempt at paraphrasing her words \u2013 having the absolute need to have the author\u2019s unadulterated voice read\/heard – I transcribe the passage that will guide this brief reflection: \u201cA confession searches for, not a virtual time, but a real one; thus, not daring to settle for a virtual temporality, it stands still precisely at that place where the real time is to take place. This is the time that can\u2019t be transcribed; a time that cannot be captured, it is the unity of life that no longer needs to be expressed. That is why all art possesses some deviated form of confession, sharing, at times, the same objectives as confession, recreating itself as it unfolds, and detains and spends time as if it were a supreme human luxury.\u201d<\/p>\n
Let us walk by Zambrano\u2019s side for a moment, and consider her reflections as a pretext for examining the confessions that\u2014already encapsulated\u2014pervade in the works which comprise this exhibition. Let\u2019s talk about that temporality which escapes completely from discursive approaches; a temporality waiting as a promised threshold to be wandered in the somewhat uncanny spatiality the work of art appears to offer. For, according to Zambrano, a confession does not exist in language, rather it happens actively while it inhabits and engenders the act of speech. This is why those who speak and those who hear a confession participate in the complicity that beholds this uncertain temporality that exists in anticipation of the continuity of time. As if the time that hadn\u2019t (still) been spoken from which a confession is nurtured had carried within itself enough beheld strength\u2014existing as a (de)historicized wound\u2014to be able to situate the confessed secret in a spatiality of infinite potential.<\/p>\n
Assuming the validity of this active present that Zambrano claims in relation to a confession, the realization of an irreducible subject could be found in its temporality. This fractured subject in its shattered condition gives of itself completely, and negates the relinquishment of being. For life needs to express itself beyond reason and imposed orders. With all its urgency, it is important to understand that a confession does not participate in an impulsive manner that places itself at risk. Any confession takes place within the realm of defeat. Therefore, the word which names it connotes the silence of that which has been (until now) kept unsaid; that which now runs away from itself. This is the reason why he who confesses has the possibility of constructing a recreation of time rescued from a past that (until then) hadn\u2019t really belonged to him, a past that had been \u2018other\u2019.<\/p>\n
The works in this exhibition wander the proximities of this confessed temporality searching to find that unity of life which would no longer need for words. In each of them exists something that has been already spoken, so the work of art becomes a means of perpetual disclosure of its needs. They interact in this almost-present temporal space, sharing with others who listen and receive its fragility. In spite of their \u2018non-confessable\u2019 nature, these works openly and nakedly share with the viewer textures that reveal themselves in their material renderings. Based on the assumption that there exists a ruptured yet undisclosed reality, a reality which remains obscured at the verge of confession, this exhibition confesses itself by reuniting works through the boundaries of this hidden reality\u2014sharing in its (still) silenced origin the same small distance that exists between its (in)visible layers. Having found among the artists selected a common resonance in the urge to transform the irreducible category of that which calls itself \u201cthe truth\u201d into a genre in crisis that needs to confess its downfalls and failures; this curatorial proposal acknowledges life when its present reality is distant even from the possibility of recognizing its own contours.<\/p>\n
marcela quiroz luna<\/p>\n
curator<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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![\n<\/a>the technical decisions operate under perfect equilibrium and resonance with the semiotic tactics of barrag\u00e1n\u2019s unsettlingly fragile bodies. the artist converts these staggering narcissists into suggestive reflections\/refractions concerned with the fracturing which is inherent and inevitable in this over-saturated and symbolic construct. the tremor of their doubled bodies whispers with thundering clarity the un-veiled human condition when it is most exposed\u2013not in its nakedness\u2013but in its endeavor to soften its contours and disguise that which still remains of its singularity.<\/em><\/p>\nMarcela Quiroz<\/em>,\u00a0<\/strong> 2010<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/falladecortante.blogspot.mx\/2010_07_26_archive.html<\/a><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.jausart.com\/default2.asp<\/a><\/p>\n\nFrom the man and his series I<\/li>\nFrom the man and his series II<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nconfes(s)ion(e)s<\/p>\n\n6 Artists Working In Tijuana<\/p>\nFeaturing Works By: Mely Barrag\u00e1n, Miguel Fern\u00e1ndez, Hugo Lugo, Mayra Huerta, Daniel Ruanova, Shinpei Takeda<\/p>\nOpens Friday July 23 6:30-9:30p.m.<\/p>\nCurated by Marcela Quiroz<\/p>\n“Sharing a secret isn\u2019t knowing it or breaking its promise, it is sharing something ignored: nothing known, nothing that can be determined.” ~J. DERRIDA<\/p>\nIn one of her least know essays, Spanish philosopher, Mar\u00eda Zambrano makes an intriguing commentary regarding artistic practice. Discarding the useless attempt at paraphrasing her words \u2013 having the absolute need to have the author\u2019s unadulterated voice read\/heard – I transcribe the passage that will guide this brief reflection: \u201cA confession searches for, not a virtual time, but a real one; thus, not daring to settle for a virtual temporality, it stands still precisely at that place where the real time is to take place. This is the time that can\u2019t be transcribed; a time that cannot be captured, it is the unity of life that no longer needs to be expressed. That is why all art possesses some deviated form of confession, sharing, at times, the same objectives as confession, recreating itself as it unfolds, and detains and spends time as if it were a supreme human luxury.\u201d<\/p>\nLet us walk by Zambrano\u2019s side for a moment, and consider her reflections as a pretext for examining the confessions that\u2014already encapsulated\u2014pervade in the works which comprise this exhibition. Let\u2019s talk about that temporality which escapes completely from discursive approaches; a temporality waiting as a promised threshold to be wandered in the somewhat uncanny spatiality the work of art appears to offer. For, according to Zambrano, a confession does not exist in language, rather it happens actively while it inhabits and engenders the act of speech. This is why those who speak and those who hear a confession participate in the complicity that beholds this uncertain temporality that exists in anticipation of the continuity of time. As if the time that hadn\u2019t (still) been spoken from which a confession is nurtured had carried within itself enough beheld strength\u2014existing as a (de)historicized wound\u2014to be able to situate the confessed secret in a spatiality of infinite potential.<\/p>\nAssuming the validity of this active present that Zambrano claims in relation to a confession, the realization of an irreducible subject could be found in its temporality. This fractured subject in its shattered condition gives of itself completely, and negates the relinquishment of being. For life needs to express itself beyond reason and imposed orders. With all its urgency, it is important to understand that a confession does not participate in an impulsive manner that places itself at risk. Any confession takes place within the realm of defeat. Therefore, the word which names it connotes the silence of that which has been (until now) kept unsaid; that which now runs away from itself. This is the reason why he who confesses has the possibility of constructing a recreation of time rescued from a past that (until then) hadn\u2019t really belonged to him, a past that had been \u2018other\u2019.<\/p>\nThe works in this exhibition wander the proximities of this confessed temporality searching to find that unity of life which would no longer need for words. In each of them exists something that has been already spoken, so the work of art becomes a means of perpetual disclosure of its needs. They interact in this almost-present temporal space, sharing with others who listen and receive its fragility. In spite of their \u2018non-confessable\u2019 nature, these works openly and nakedly share with the viewer textures that reveal themselves in their material renderings. Based on the assumption that there exists a ruptured yet undisclosed reality, a reality which remains obscured at the verge of confession, this exhibition confesses itself by reuniting works through the boundaries of this hidden reality\u2014sharing in its (still) silenced origin the same small distance that exists between its (in)visible layers. Having found among the artists selected a common resonance in the urge to transform the irreducible category of that which calls itself \u201cthe truth\u201d into a genre in crisis that needs to confess its downfalls and failures; this curatorial proposal acknowledges life when its present reality is distant even from the possibility of recognizing its own contours.<\/p>\nmarcela quiroz luna<\/p>\ncurator<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El trabajo de Mely Barrag\u00e1n \u2014frecuentemente asociado con desconfiable rapidez a los intereses de g\u00e9nero y el arte feminista\u2014 hace de la delgada l\u00ednea del dibujo que dispone sobre el vac\u00edo a sus hombres duplicados, tono y timbre discursivo que anima y subvierte su propuesta est\u00e9tica y conceptual. 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