Lineas de Fuga / Lines of Flight
“Lines of flight is an exhibition project that arises as a concern in the face of the large number of changes that have affected not only the performance of our societies and the enormous difficulties of exchange, growth and human contact caused by the rise of a pandemic that still affects us, but also, as a response to a complex knot of alterations that, consequently, have become evident in the processes undertaken by social transformation and contemporary art in the latest decades of the 21st century.
Virtuality and connection through the different variables offered today by platforms in all parts of the world have created a dissolution of borders. But, although in this space many of the limits that separated us have been erased, we also stumble upon a transitory and vague screen, where everything is transforming vertiginously and we can lose the necessary guidelines when it comes to being participants in a developing context . We entered a process as beautiful as it is complex in which our ways of doing, looking and creating have been modified, along with our ways of perceiving and assuming reality.”
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Detailed images: Russell Watson; Exhibition Images: CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean
PRESS RELEASE – INAUGURATION OF THE EXHIBITION LINES OF FUGA – MVD-LaPAZ-CCS
To strengthen the Latin American identity, CAF – Development Bank of Latin America begins a new cycle of exhibition activity in its galleries in the region, through a collective exhibition entitled Lines of Flight, which will be exhibiting the work in person-virtual mode of 18 Ibero-American creators. The first station will be inaugurated on Thursday, May 12, at the Montevideo Gallery.
Always attentive to development through culture and the expansion of art due to different trends and historical moments, CAF -development bank of Latin America- restarts the exhibition activity of its galleries located in the offices of Montevideo, La Paz and Caracas, to through a collective exhibition of contemporary art where 18 artists from the Ibero-American region come together to spread valuable concerns about the problems, achievements, encounters and concerns that current society has experienced in recent times.
With the support of the Venezuelan curator Lorena González Inneco, the exhibition addresses the dissolution of borders that the virtual stage after the pandemic inserted in our cartographies, while continuing to ask questions about the possibilities of real participation and growth of individuals in our societies. on process of development. In the words of the Executive President of CAF, Sergio Diaz Granados-Guida: "We consider culture, art, creative industries and the orange economy to be the fourth pillar of development, which carry great weight within Latin American societies and are an axis fundamental for the generation of value, employment and development in our region”.
The first station of this itinerary will be inaugurated on Thursday, May 12 at 5:30 PM and will take place in the city of Montevideo, where the Art Gallery located at Av. Ciudadela 1235 between Reconquista and Camacuá, Montevideo – Uruguay, Oficina País CAF - Uruguay, will receive the face-to-face work of the artists: Marco Maggi (Uruguay), Augusto Ballardo (Peru), Claudia del Fierro (Chile), Claudia Casarino (Paraguay), Isabel Cisneros (Venezuela) and Nydia Negromonte (Brazil), six creators who explore the dimensions and possibilities of staging to generate large museum installations conceived as a journey before the viewer.
The second moment will open its doors in the gallery located in the city of La Paz at Avenida Arce No. 2915 Zona San Jorge, La Paz, Oficina País Bolivia; on May 19 at 5:00 PM. There, through painting, video, photography, sculpture, graphics and collage, the revolutions and involutions of matter are linked in the work of the artists: Raquel Schwartz (Bolivia), Ana Elena Garuz (Panama), Aglae Cortes (Mexico ), Paola Spalletti (Argentina) and Rodrigo Echeverri (Colombia).
Finally, in the city of Caracas at the CAF Headquarters building, located on Av. Luis Roche de Altamira, Carcas, the exhibition that culminates this tour will be inaugurated on Thursday, May 26 at 5:30 PM. In this host gallery, the seven face-to-face works of the creators Jaime Castro (Venezuela), Annalee Davis (Barbados), Christopher Cozier (Trinidad and Tobago), Ilich Castillo (Ecuador), Marco Godoy (Spain), Paloma Navares (Spain) will be received. and Quisqueya Henríquez (Dominican Republic). In this case, the audiovisual stories, the performance record, the family archive, the topographies of the individual and the power of the image within the migratory, political, economic and social crises of recent times are the protagonists.
In the three exhibition spaces and attentive to the new modes of exchange, relationship and participation in the contemporary world, the exhibition includes, together with the face-to-face work of the participants, several infographics in QR codes where the viewer can interact with the work of the creators located in equidistant galleries. Through this gesture, we will have a face-to-face-virtual sample in its entirety where eighteen artists from the Ibero-American region will be interacting in three cardinal points of an exhibition space also expanded to digital networks and platforms.
The exhibition has the valuable participation in graphic conceptualization and museography of José Luis García, production assistance and coordination of Verónica Lima, production at Gunilla Álvarez (Montevideo) and Galo Coca Soto (La Paz).
Exhibition organized by the General Secretariat of CAF, through its Culture and Sports area, in coordination with the Headquarters (Venezuela) and the Country Offices of Bolivia and Uruguay.
