Installation views, The Nature of Things
Group show, The Biennial of the Americas, Denver
Curated by Paola Santoscoy
July 1 – 31, 2010
Untitled, 2010
Fabric panels
Dimensions variable
Work installed in dialogue with sculptures by Brígida Baltar and video by Estefanía Peñafiel
Participating artists: Gabriel Acevedo Velarde, Martín Alonso, Brígida Baltar, Teddy Cruz, cypher13 design studio, Santiago Cucullu, Darío Escobar, Gregory Euclid, Rubén Gutiérrez, Jerónimo Hagerman, Karlo Andrei Ibarra, Lucia Koch, Miler Lagos, Armando Miguelez, Felipe Mujica, Nicholas de Monchaux, Víctor Muñoz, Sandra Nakamura, Estefanía Peñafiel, Rael San Fratello Architects, Pedro Reyes, Clark Richert, Alexis Rochas, and Joseph Shaeffer
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Exhibition wall text: Felipe Mujica works within the realms of exhibition design and art-making. In this piece he uses fabric panels, or “wall curtains,” to divide and rearrange the exhibition space, creating new spatial configurations for the viewer and unique spaces for the presentation of art. The panels function as an architectural authority, creating interstitial spaces that highlight the building’s potential while enforcing navigational movements throughout the exhibition. By constructing the panels out of fabric, the viewer is psychologically captured but not physically contained, and allowed to actively participate in the dialogue. Likewise, the fabric is subject to the movement of air, making the space flexible and transitory, and reinforcing the idea of an open-ended work of art.
As a Chilean artist living in New York City, Mujica’s art reflects a sense of displacement. To him there is no single point of reference, no dominant discourse; everything and everyone exists in relation to one another. Both backdrops and objects, his works form collaborations between locations, viewers, art history, and other artworks, ultimately sacrificing artistic independence for the artistic community.
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