ARCHIVOS DE ACCIONES II::Action Files II
Se del riesgo que estoy tomando al exponer en este momento histórico con una de las instituciones museísticas del estado pero lo asumo con toda mi libertad personal. Albeley Rodríguez, la curadora, tiene años investigando y trabajando el tema del cuerpo en el arte. Ella me invita para crearle contraste al enfoque, a veces superficial, que se le ha dado al arte corporal en eventos nacionales organizados desde la plataforma de las artes visuales. Además, cerca de la Sala Multimedia, en la Sala 7 van a estar los fotógrafos españoles con sus Polaroids Gigantes y tener buena compañía es estimulante. El que se desplace por el museo llegará inevitablemente a mi obra si quiere salir hacia el jardín de las esculturas. No se si hago bien o no, pero creo que no podemos seguir cediendo todos los espacios y continuar alimentando la polarización política que nos ha separado como sociedad. Además el apoyo de ese equipo de gente conmigo ha sido bonito y muy respetuoso.
Artemisa, la de Caño AmarilloPerformance, Caracas, 2004.Fotoregistro: Nayarí Castillo.Duración del slideshow: 03:37La artista camina por Caño Amarillo, en Caracas, allí donde se ubicó el ya desaparecido IUESAPAR. Desde ese lugar de la ciudad, Méndez entra en contacto con las calles y los transeúntes del lugar como Artemisa, diosa de los animales salvajes, el terreno virgen y la fertilidad, los nacimientos, la caza y el alivio de las enfermedades. Así investida, la artista irrumpe en la percepción y ritmos cotidianos para exponerse desde una dimensión de sí misma pero, simultáneamente, con el deseo de ofrecer relaciones distintas con y entre los otros.
Artemis, the one from Caño Amarillo
Performance, Caracas, 2004.
Photographs: Nayari Castillo.
Slideshow duration: 03:37
The artist walks around Caño Amarillo, in Caracas, where once the Institute of the Arts Armando Reverón stood. From that place of the city, Méndez contacts the streets and passers-by of the site as Artemis, goddess of wild animals, the virgin soil and fertility, birth, hunting, and the alleviation of disease. Thus vested, the artist breaks the perception and daily rhythms to expose a dimension of herself but, simultaneously, with the desire to offer different relationships with and among others.
At about 8 I returned home last night after the opening of my show ACTION FILES in the Multimedia Gallery, Gallery 8 of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bellas Artes, Caracas. These days the city has been greatly complicated by the rain, traffic jams, serious problems in the subway and insecurity. Those of us who were able to make it were not many but I felt a large circle of friendship and happiness around me. I know the risk I am taking exhibiting at this historic moment of my country in one of the state museums, but I assume it with all my personal freedom. Albeley Rodriguez, the curator, has been researching and working on the issue of body art for years. She invited me to create contrast to the approach, sometimes superficial, that has been given to body art at national events organized from the state platform of the visual arts. In addition, near the Multimedia Gallery, in Gallery 7 there will be the Spanish photographers with their Giant Polaroids and to have good company is stimulating. Those visiting and moving around within the museum will inevitably come to my work if they want to go out through the sculpture garden. I do not know if I am acting correctly or not, but I think that we can not keep giving up all the spaces and continue to feed the political polarization that has separated us as a society. Besides, the support I have received by this team of people from the museum has been nice and very respectful. The archives are shown with dignity, with clear and dynamic staging onto the gallery space. There are five giant video-beam projections and a flat screen monitor with headphones to be heard in private, one person at a time. The exhibition will be shown until February 2012. The course through it takes time and patience in order to look at it carefully. There are ten years of work on show that help me see and understand myself in a very particular creative moment. I am thankful to the museum staff for their museographic and research love because they did a nice job of creating a space for my action files. I feel grateful, happy and I am filled with the expectation to move on inventing and creating through my art.
Sewing ConnieFotoperformance, Caracas, 2002.Fotografías: Nayarí CastilloDuración del slideshow: 01:29Una recreación personal de los estuches de las agujas, cuya imagen de presentación incluye a tres mujeres que la artista relacionó con las Moiras, es decir, las hilanderas griegas del destino. Moira (μοῖρα) significa ‘parte’; la artista explora su propia presencia en el tiempo a partir de tres porciones de su hilo de vida.
Sewing Connie
Photoperformance, Caracas, 2002.
Photographs: Nayarí CastilloSlideshow duration: 01:29
A personal recreation of the needle kits in which the image displayed includes three women that the artist associated with the Fates, the Greek spinners of destiny. Moira (μοῖρα) means 'part', the artist explores her own presence in time of three aspects of her thread of life.












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