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We invite you to experience #BuildingDialogs, an interwoven photo artists’ co-curated exhibition curated by Fabian Goncalves Borrega, on our four social media walls: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. #AMAatHome #AMAenCasa is AMA’s initiative featuring exhibitions specifically curated for its social media platforms.
For the Building Dialogs project, AMA’s Fabian Goncalves facilitates a variation on the usual role of a curator, providing a twist on conventional concepts of how exhibitions are built. Here he initiates a process in which a group of artists select pairings of each other's works, creating their own multi-layered narratives. Stimulating the conversation among this small network of artists, we pivot from a vertical to horizontal curatorial practice, we reinforce lateral contributions and visual syntheses, and we question the monolithic idea of authorship. Goncalves notes transformative visual dialogs among the four selected series of photo artists: Alejandra Delgado Uria, Thomas Kellner, Brad Temkin, and Gesche Würfel. This exhibition is the result of his facilitation of these artists building dialogs with one another, contextualized within Incan cosmology.
“An interwoven photo artists’ co-curated exhibition where each artist’s visual dialog is hosted on their website. The collective exhibition results in a kaleidoscope of images for the viewers to enjoy.” Pablo Zúñiga, former director, AMA
In Inca mythology, the universe is divided into three territories, or pachas: hanan, kay, and uku. These realms share a structure similar to that of the Catholic notions of heaven, earth, and hell. This overlap helped Spanish missionaries to advance their own religious notions in the New World while simultaneously allowing the Inca to preserve aspects of their own mythology within that of Catholicism, giving rise to syncretic beliefs that remain part of Andean myth and religion to this day. The three pachas represent three distinct planes of existence, interconnected and bridged by both physical and spiritual and mythological elements. Together, the three realms shaped Inca religion, the concept of the Inca cosmos, and the day-to-day worldview of both the Inca nobility and the common person. The three pacha realms are also conceived akin to buildings, with rooftops, levels, and basements. Through the photography of these four artists, we’ll explore these “buildings”: the hanan, the roof, through Brad Temkin’s Rooftops, a series of ambiguous and solitary gardens against the open Chicago sky; the kay, the center, through Thomas Kellner’s Brasilia, 50 Years of Utopia, in a melodic deconstruction of facades and interiors of Brasilia; as well as through Alejandra Delgado’s series Fantasmagorias, of disembodied architecture of Bolivian Cholets; and, finally, the uku, the basement, through Gesche Wurfel’s Basement Sanctuaries, a personalized and intimate view of New York City superintendents’ basements and common areas.
Art Museum of the Americas
artmus@oas.org
©2020 OAS Art Museum of the Americas. All rights reserved.
We invite you to experience #BuildingDialogs, an interwoven photo artists’ co-curated exhibition curated by Fabian Goncalves Borrega, on our four social media walls: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. #AMAatHome #AMAenCasa is AMA’s initiative featuring exhibitions specifically curated for its social media platforms.
For the Building Dialogs project, AMA’s Fabian Goncalves facilitates a variation on the usual role of a curator, providing a twist on conventional concepts of how exhibitions are built. Here he initiates a process in which a group of artists select pairings of each other's works, creating their own multi-layered narratives. Stimulating the conversation among this small network of artists, we pivot from a vertical to horizontal curatorial practice, we reinforce lateral contributions and visual syntheses, and we question the monolithic idea of authorship. Goncalves notes transformative visual dialogs among the four selected series of photo artists: Alejandra Delgado Uria, Thomas Kellner, Brad Temkin, and Gesche Würfel. This exhibition is the result of his facilitation of these artists building dialogs with one another, contextualized within Incan cosmology.
“An interwoven photo artists’ co-curated exhibition where each artist’s visual dialog is hosted on their website. The collective exhibition results in a kaleidoscope of images for the viewers to enjoy.” Pablo Zúñiga, former director, AMA
In Inca mythology, the universe is divided into three territories, or pachas: hanan, kay, and uku. These realms share a structure similar to that of the Catholic notions of heaven, earth, and hell. This overlap helped Spanish missionaries to advance their own religious notions in the New World while simultaneously allowing the Inca to preserve aspects of their own mythology within that of Catholicism, giving rise to syncretic beliefs that remain part of Andean myth and religion to this day. The three pachas represent three distinct planes of existence, interconnected and bridged by both physical and spiritual and mythological elements. Together, the three realms shaped Inca religion, the concept of the Inca cosmos, and the day-to-day worldview of both the Inca nobility and the common person. The three pacha realms are also conceived akin to buildings, with rooftops, levels, and basements. Through the photography of these four artists, we’ll explore these “buildings”: the hanan, the roof, through Brad Temkin’s Rooftops, a series of ambiguous and solitary gardens against the open Chicago sky; the kay, the center, through Thomas Kellner’s Brasilia, 50 Years of Utopia, in a melodic deconstruction of facades and interiors of Brasilia; as well as through Alejandra Delgado’s series Fantasmagorias, of disembodied architecture of Bolivian Cholets; and, finally, the uku, the basement, through Gesche Wurfel’s Basement Sanctuaries, a personalized and intimate view of New York City superintendents’ basements and common areas.
Art Museum of the Americas
artmus@oas.org
©2020 OAS Art Museum of the Americas. All rights reserved.
