Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷
Quimera Gallery
9.11.2018 ➝ 21.12.2018
Duo exhibition next to Dana Ferrari
Curated by Diego Bianchi
Performance by Andrés Gorzycki, Felipe Alvarez Parisi, Mia Superstar and Z
Assistance by Nina Kunan, Felipe Alvarez Parisi, Mía Superstar and Z
Photos by Victoria Robledo
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“Destroying what is sacred”
“The parangolé rolled around the gardens, dragging along with it the oscillating
crowd that had previously been leaning contemplatively in front of the pictures…
It was the first time the people went into the museum.”
Waly Salomão, “Hélio Oiticica: Qual é o parangolé? E outros escritos”
What happened, what happened… when in front of our eyes and under our feet the board becomes disfigured and in the new game, in the new world, all that exists is the determination to be the pawns who head to their death. We are overcome by impossibility and all that is left is for us to be at the mercy of everything.
Regrouping seems to be the only mitigation beyond all razed structures.
Let us laugh and cry. Laughing might be the most vital of all acts, the most irrepressible and therefore the most revolutionary. He who laughs at power strikes it with a mortal wound.
Is there anything more subversive than taking whatever exists as relative.
A declaration of war against what is established, purely on the grounds that is what it is.
Eroding the forms of what is a given opens the abyss of uncertainty and possibility.
Play whatever you play with passion, take a risk, squander time on it, squander and play, that is all we can do.
Declare war against the red player, declare war against the right-wing player or conquer Africa and Oceania, to keep the game playing itself…
Perhaps only contingency can provoke self-awareness and new thoughts.
Symbols of power that melt into pure allegory, stereotype, cliché, that become more of a thing than the “thing” itself, alluding to its banal form as a thing of the world, and as such, absurd, pathetic, desecratable, exchangeable and expendable.
Everything can change, we are all exchangeable, works of art can run away and laugh at you.
Any pawn can achieve its very own check mate.
Jorge Pomar presents his overwhelmed practice in the simultaneous series that he has been developing since 2015: cross-dressed flags, thoroughly vitalistic drawings and absurdly utilitarian ceramics.
Each expansion he makes is a wide open opportunity to tweak dormant codes using melee and mischievousness, to crack configurations, to poetically sully and reassemble the hecatomb of the world.
Diego Bianchi
23 OCT 2018
Buenos Aires