Showing posts with label Santiago Sierra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Santiago Sierra. Show all posts

Thursday, 29 January 2015

Cross Section of a Revolution

Cross Section of a Revolution
Allora & Calzadilla, Broomberg & Chanarin, Liu Xiaodong, Haroon Mirza, Rashid Rana, Wael Shawky, Santiago Sierra
Lisson Gallery

Rashid Rana’s Red Carpet, 2008 [detail]
«This group exhibition of Lisson Gallery artists explores global aspects of trade, trauma, religious belief systems and contested territories, via a number of intersecting political practices, across photographic, sculptural, painterly and filmic media.» [...MORE...]
Rashid Rana’s Red Carpet, 2008
Allora and Calzadilla, The Bell, the Digger, and the Tropical Pharmacy, 2013
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Divine Violence, 2013

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

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In September 2002, just had moved in to London, went to see Santiago Sierra exhibition at a nearby gallery in Bell Street. What I've found was a space closed by corrugated metal. Surprinsigly enought, for me, at least, that was Sierra's piece.
A decade later, just had moved again into Lisson's neighbourhood, Santiago Sierra opens a new exhibition, "Dedicated to the Workers and Unemployed". But this time I manage to get inside. The exhibition features fifty-three video about performance based works, video documents of sculptural projects and programmed films. Most of them I had already saw during the last ten years at exhibitions, via internet or on documentaries and, some, live.
While in 2002 I existed as a participant-observation, this time I have been only an observer - in both situation I wasn't paid to perform any action.
By the time I've left the Death Counter was in 4.586.300