Writings in light

Thinking art from light is an invitation that goes beyond the simple materiality of the works. It is a proposal that adds questions, criticism, analysis, messages and poetry that allow us to see problematic situations, both individual and social, from different perspectives. In this exhibition, expectations and disappointments, proclamations and denunciations coexist: migration as a hope of salvation, pointing out as an instance of observation and persecution, the estrangement that speaks of idiosyncrasy and limits. These "illuminations" are configured as a critique of violence in the same sense in which Walter Benjamin enunciated it many years ago, when a fateful future was in sight. But Escrituras de luz is also a call to reflection, to the search for consensus, to the enunciation that gives us back the possibility of art transcending the limits that are imposed on it when it becomes inconvenient. An urgency in which it is necessary to follow Benjamin in order to propose concepts in art theory that are different from the usual ones because they are completely useless for the purposes of fascism.

Km: 1834

Venue: MAC - MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO - Valdivia

Address: Los Laures s/n, Isla Teja

City: Valdivia

Chile

Artist(s):

León Ferrari (ARG)

Regina Silveira (BRA)

Graciela Sacco (ARG)

Bernardí Roig (ESP)

Enrique Ramírez (FRA-CHL)

Claudia Aravena (CHL)

Bárbara Oettinger (CHL)

Lila Siegrist (ARG)

Curatorship:

Fernando Farina (ARG)

Type(s):

Exhibition

From 2017/10/13

To 2017/11/05