2023
FOLLOWING THE BODY
Group Show. Fragment Gallery, NYC
FOLLOWING THE BODY:
FELIPE BAEZA, ANTONIUS-TIN BUI, DEBRA CARTWRIGHT, CARLOS CASUSO, KEVIN CLAIBORNE, GIULIA CREȚULESCU, DAGNINI, NICOLO GENTILE, XANDRA IBARRA, HAMED MAIYE, CARLY MANDEL, TAMARA SANTIBAÑEZ
Fragment Gallery, New York, USA
The show examines how artists express and challenge the notion of the body as politics, with a specific focus on Queer bodies and their identity formation, the Black and Brown body, bodies in religious cults, as well as body modification as a way of self-identification. The body can also be seen as a protective shell and a cyborg—a combination of human and machine. Two different approaches are used to highlight these themes: the method, which might be simply described as showing 'presence through absence,' presented in this exhibition, is an active dialogue with the 'exposed body.'
FELIPE BAEZA, ANTONIUS-TIN BUI, DEBRA CARTWRIGHT, CARLOS CASUSO, KEVIN CLAIBORNE, GIULIA CREȚULESCU, DAGNINI, NICOLO GENTILE, XANDRA IBARRA, HAMED MAIYE, CARLY MANDEL, TAMARA SANTIBAÑEZ
Fragment Gallery, New York, USA
The show examines how artists express and challenge the notion of the body as politics, with a specific focus on Queer bodies and their identity formation, the Black and Brown body, bodies in religious cults, as well as body modification as a way of self-identification. The body can also be seen as a protective shell and a cyborg—a combination of human and machine. Two different approaches are used to highlight these themes: the method, which might be simply described as showing 'presence through absence,' presented in this exhibition, is an active dialogue with the 'exposed body.'
Four-channel video "I DECIDED TO MULTIPLY" is the video manifesto of Dagnini. The fragmented text is interwoven with fragments of documentation of the artist's performances and internet memes. In her performances, Dagnini pursues the obsessive idea of moving away from the familiar form of the human body. Bodies as a finished object, a social marker, and a prison of imagination. On the one hand, this quest is inherently doomed. Any attempt by the artist to acquire another form is just a game of transition, but for Dagnini, it's a serious game, and if there is even a moment when it is possible to disidentify, the "genie*" flies "out of the bottle."
* Referred to the song of Christina Aguilera, "Genie In A Bottle", RCA, 1999
* Referred to the song of Christina Aguilera, "Genie In A Bottle", RCA, 1999