GLASS is an exhibition that brings together PHOTOGRAPHY by emerging & mid career artists with international trajectories from Latin America to Paris.
Periferia Projects and Lulu are pleased to present GLASS, an exhibition featuring contemporary photography by 20 preeminent artists from 7 countries in Latin America. Their work is associated with the notion of “Looking-Glass Self”, a psychological and social concept first introduced by Charles Horton Cooley in 1902. It states that our self image is formed via our perception of how others see us.
“I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am”
The “Looking-Glass Self” theory suggests a relative approach to each individual’s existence, meaning that the way humans perceive themselves is not established a priori, but is deeply embedded in the surrounding social environment. One learns to see themselves as others do.
Today in a world saturated by images and digital communication, where contact is “contactless”, identity is built and rebuilt, diffused by different platforms. Taking Cooley’s theory further, GLASS explores how each person builds and projects their own identity, their vision of the world and its events according to what they think is perceived.
FEATURED ARTISTS: ARGENTINA Alejandro Chaskielberg; Gaby Herbstein; Schevach & Authier BRAZIL Ulysses Boscolo; Lucia Guanaes; Teresa Poester COLOMBIA Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo; Andrés Orjuela MEXICO LakeVerea; Pia Elizondo; Tania Franco Klein; Adela Goldbard; Carmen Mariscal; Betsabeé Romero; Alexa Torre PERU Marina García Burgos; Evelyn Merino-Reyna; Lizi Sánchez PUERTO RICO Werner Segarra VENEZUELA Lucia Pizzani
Curated by Lassla Esquivel & Beatriz Forti
Periferia Projects has longstanding experience creating international projects supporting artists in new markets giving them visibility and promoting collaborations with galleries, artists and institutions. LULU is a reputed film producer company, it has worked with the most experienced professionals from the film and photography industry. Is responsible of blockbuster films such as Sexo Pudor y Lágrimas & Temporada de Patos.
Periferia Projects & Lulu join forces to create photography projects across Europe giving visibility and promoting artists from Latin America who have international trajectories into new market and cultural collaborations.
< PRACTICAL INFO >
LOCATION: ESPACE LHOMOND, 21 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France
VERNISSAGE: 1 APRIL, 2019, 18h
ROUND TABLE: 4 APRIL, 2019, 18h30
DATES: 1 – 7 APRIL, 2019
FEATURED ARTISTS: ARGENTINA Alejandro Chaskielberg; Gaby Herbstein; Schevach & Authier BRAZIL Ulysses Boscolo; Lucia Guanaes; Teresa Poester COLOMBIA Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo; Andrés Orjuela MEXICO LakeVerea; Pia Elizondo; Tania Franco Klein; Adela Goldbard; Carmen Mariscal; Betsabeé Romero; Alexa Torre PERU Marina García Burgos; Evelyn Merino-Reyna; Lizi Sánchez PUERTO RICO Werner Segarra VENEZUELA Lucia Pizzani
PRODUCED BY Periferia Projects (Lassla Esquivel + Beatriz Forti) and Lulu Producciones (Loredana Dall'Amico + Christian Valdelièvre).
CURATED BY Lassla Esquivel & Beatriz Forti
CURATORIAL TEAM: Adriana Santangelo and Mio Shinozaki.
INSTALLATION TEAM: Maria Brazina, Werner Feminier, Olga Fromentin, Liangjiao Gao, Michaëla Hadji-Minaglou, Qui Li, Xiaoyuan Li, Jinyu Lin, Olivier Mathieu, Alisa Puznianskaia, Adriana Santangelo and Mio Shinozaki.
PARTNERSHIPS & SPONSORS: Art Paris Art Fair, IESA arts&culture, Mezcal La Escondida, Pisco 1615, Lamba & Watt, Younique Galérie, FocoLab, Los Contemporáneos Francia, Instituto México en Paris y Embajada del Perú en Paris.
<Paris & Latin America>
Round table with Ángeles Alonso Espinosa, Carmen Mariscal, Lucía Pizzani & Betsabeé Romero + Soireé Mezcal & Pisco
Thursday 04.04.2019 - 18.30h
GLASS opens dialogue between Latin American & French art scenes to understand how they develop and thrive through time, discussing curatorial, artistic & collecting practices in both regions.
Contemporary Art is thriving in Paris, it is crucial to connect the local with the international scene. Periferia-Lulu will showcase Glass on the same dates as Art Paris Art Fair 2019, which devotes a section to art from Latin America “Southern Stars” curated by Valentina Locatelli. In the same spirit and joining forces with this platform, Periferia Lulu presents a highlight of Contemporary Photography from this region. GLASS will showcase a photographic highlight of this region and will host a round table to give context to the featured artists while discussing curatorial, artistic and collecting practices in this region, and its connections with Europe. At the same time reassuring Latin American artists are not the “exotic” stereotype that the media and social outlets make them out to be, but rather are global contemporary artists which can be inspired by their native context in Latin America but also defined by the global world they live and work on. Breaking down stereotypes is crucial in the current political and social context of Europe and the world.
Key note speakers:
Ángeles Alonso Espinosa. Social anthropologist & curator based between Mexico and France. Among some of her projects are: El sabotaje de lo real. Miradas cruzadas entre México y Europa (Museo Amparo in collaboration with Centre Georges Pompidou, 2009); co-curator Resisting the Present (Museo Amparo & Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2012); co-curator América Latina 1960-2013. Fotos + textos, (Fundación Cartier & Museo Amparo, 2013), among others.
Carmen Mariscal. Mexican artist based in Paris. Carmen Mariscal has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions in the USA, Mexico, France, Spain, The Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Malaysia and other countries in public spaces and private art galleries. Memory, family history, fragility and confinement are recurring themes in her work. These themes are expressed in installations, photography, video, sculpture and theatre set designs.
Lucía Pizzani. Venezuelan artist based in London. Has exhibited in Sala Mendoza, Jacobo Borges Museum, Galería de Arte Nacional, Espacio Monitor and Abra (Caracas), House of Egorn (Berlin), Cecilia Brunson Projects, Stephen Lawrence Gallery and Photofusion (London), Art Exchange at Essex University (Colchester), Noorderlicht Photography (Groningen), Queens Museum and Exit Art (New York), MOLAA Museum Of Latin American Art (Los Angeles), the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, MARCO (Vigo), Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MAC (Santiago de Chile), among others. Her work revolves around issues of gender, body, and a lifelong interest in nature.
Betsabeé Romero. Mexican artist based in Mexico City. She is interested in raising issues about migration, mestizaje (Interbreeding and cultural intermixing) and cultural and geographical mobility. This sought is through symbols and rituals of global consumerism such as cars, urban signalisation, among others. She has over 100 solo shows in Mexico, United States and Europe. Some of the hosting venues are the British Museum, Mega Offering of the Zocalo of Mexico City, Offering on the esplanade of the Palace of Fine Arts, Nevada Museum of Art, Neuberger Museum, Nelson & Atkins Museum of Art, Anahuacalli Museum, Dolores Olmedo Museum, Old San Ildefonso College, Amparo Museum in Puebla, MARCO and Monterrey Museum, Canberra University Museum, Carrillo Gil Museum, Recoleta in Buenos Aires, among others.
ONLINE BOOKLET with images of all the works included in the show: HERE