LYR part 2 - Killing Screen and Do Not Resuscitate
Curated by Gabriel Virgilio Luciani and Margot Cuevas.
October 4th 2019, Tangent Projects gallery.
For their first Affine project, Gabriel Virgilio Luciani and Margot Cuevas, along with the exhibiting artist, Irma Marco, collaborated with Natalia Carminati within the context of Irma’s exhibition LYR. Gabriel and Margot also presented a work of their own at the finissage.
Killing Screen - performance by Natalia Carminati
Natalia proposed a necrophilic performance taking the limitations of the mobile to the extreme, while confrontationally mirroring our own body.
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1982, Natalia Carminati currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
Natalia studied in prestigious art schools such as The Art Students League of New York (EE.UU) and Escola Massana in Barcelona. She has participated in group shows with international acclaimed artists, such as Yoko Ono and Brenda Romero, as well as exhibiting her work in solo exhibitions. Her multimedia projects have been exhibited in self-managed spaces and festivals, as well as in international fairs, galleries and museums - such as SWAB Art Fair, LOOP Video Art Festival, Hans & Fritz Contemporary, Young Gallery Weekend (Barcelona), MACBA and Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart.
She is currently a resident artist at Piramidón Contemporary Art Centre Barcelona, where she continues to develop her art projects that integrate different disciplines such as painting, installation, video games, sound, video and performance.
Followed by (19.30h)
Do Not Resuscitate - visual essay by Gabriel Virgilio Luciani and Margot Cuevas
You can watch Do Not Resuscitate below. Production and research by Gabriel Luciani and Margot Cuevas, music by Dark Water.
The death of a mobile, or rather, the suicide of a mobile causes a pain similar to that of the loss of an arm. The relationship between us and our technological counterparts can be stronger and more physical than the ones we have with other living beings. In this visual essay, we will dissect the auratic corporeality of the devices held dearest to us, thus dismembering the physical-affective relationships between us. Our anatomy is reflected in that of the mobile and vice versa.
Using as a conceptual framework the affective-corporal relationships between humanity and technology, Gabriel and Margot’s practices revolve around and through the emotional structures of semiotics and its somatic articulations - such as shedding light on the invisible structures of biopolitics that govern us, making them visible through theory and poetry. Their approach is emphasized by atmospheres and affective climates, using these as an expository approach to reflect our generational, emotional and relational inquiries.