23rd Oct 20 -> 10th Nov 20
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AMALGAMA ART presents Textural Codes at The Koppel Project Exchange, an exhibition of Latin American art exploring linguistic form, signs, movement and time. The show, curated by Daniela Galan, features artists Sofia Clausse, Carmen Mariscal, Camila Quintero & Francisca Sosa Lopez.
The root of the word ‘poetry’ alludes to the gesture of creating or transforming thoughts into matter or forms; forms that when interpreted by someone other than their creator, have the power to recreate and evoke particular images in our brains. If that is the purpose of writing, what then, is the difference between signs in painting and those in poetry?
The difference, according to philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, is time.
The narration of an image is immediate, whereas in writing it is drawn out over a beginning, a middle and an end. Many artists have questioned this difference; particularly in Latin America, where the line between image-making and writing has been used to challenge the political power of art as a universal system of signs. The work of these four Latin American women artists lets us explore the different approaches towards interpretation, perception and language, and critically confront the notions that initially come to mind.
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