Eye in the Sky // Ojo en el Cielo
Oficina de Arte + plasticland + SAP Space
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Address
Mesones 86, Cuauhtémoc, CDMX
Opening Hours
Thu, Oct 23
Participating artists: Sebastian Acker, Christian Becerra, Juan Bollas, Oscar Martínez Chávez, Salomon Cordova, Dulce Eme, Magdalena Firląg, Lesya Godfrey, Linus Gruszewski, Arturo Olmos, Guillermo Rosas, Ilÿn Wong
Organised by Magdalena Firląg, Ilÿn Wong, Sebastian Acker, Salomon Cordova, Linus Gruszewski
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Guillermo Rosas Sánchez
About
What does the eye in the sky see?
From a 10,000-foot bird’s eye view to a single blade of grass, Eye in the Sky considers landscapes—actual, virtual, mythological, imagined, sensed, abstracted, extracted.
Perhaps looking at landscape—whether from a satellite or a camera lens—is always all of the above. Surveying is surveilling; the virtual is also actual, realities are layered, sedimentary.
Landscapes enter the process of imagination and re-imagination as they are being observed, and in turn, abstracted and extracted from, whether or not anything physical is being removed.
Literal and implied landscapes are presented without the artifice of coherent curatorial logic. This show brings a collective, overlapping, asynchronous collaboration, where we build through loose thematic association, forming emergent territories from the contours of landscapes that exist only in our memories.
The format of this exhibition bespeaks the blurriness of maps, of the layering of perspectives, of tectonic shifts, and of out-of-focus faraways.
We subvert surveillance technology designed to surveil, track and hunt, retraining the gaze of these data weapons towards human stories, in an attempt to find meaning in what these all seeing tools show us, finding sense in the sensors.
Oficina de Arte
El edificio donde se encuentra la oficina es un inmueble construido en los años cincuenta que siempre ha estado dedicado a usos comerciales. La zona del centro histórico donde se encuentra el edificio se caracteriza por un intenso tráfico de mercancías y un estrecho tejido social reforzado por las actividades económicas de sus pobladores. Estos dos factores contribuyen a insertar el trabajo de los artistas en una comunidad muy rica en expimplicación de éstos en la red social local.
El espacio cuenta con once estudios, galería, bodega y un espacio de uso común. Durante el tiempo que dura cada residencia, los artistas invitados
realizan un trabajo individual con un tema en común. Este trabajo, al ser conjunto, resulta en una investigación profunda y completa. Esta investigación personal y colectiva, a su vez irá apoyada y enriquecida por un cuerpo de expertos en el medio, críticos, especialistas, curadores, directores de museos y galeristas que son invitados semanalmente.
plasticland
plasticland is a Los Angeles based design studio and creative collective, focused on material research, immersive installation and spatial storytelling. We have created site-specific installations, immersive environments and participatory workshops in at Gallery ALSO in LA , Galleri Nos in Stockholm, Palais de Tokyo in Paris and at SCAD in Atlanta.
SAP Space
SAP Space is a project space that thinks about the garden as an expanded topic, in that the garden is both a physical and conceptual space, and offers a springboard into considerations in naturecultures. The space is in the Hinterhof of a Neukölln Altbau, and includes a small single-story building and the garden within which it sits. Taking a cue from the rhythm of the seasons, SAP Space hosts exhibitions, performances, and workshops from April until October, and hibernates in the Winter months.