Rising Action
20 JANUARY - 19 FEBRUARY 2012
Preview: Thursday 19 January, 6-9pm
20 JANUARY - 19 FEBRUARY 2012
Preview: Thursday 19 January, 6-9pm
Performance: "Born to Curate" : Thursday 26 January, 7pm - RSVP Essential!
NETTIE HORN is pleased to present a twofold project by Colombian and French artists Iván Argote and Pauline Bastard consisting, on the one hand, of the exhibition “Rising Action” - featuring a video programme “Home Cinema” alongside an ensemble of installation and sculptural pieces - and followed by a performance event entitled “Born to Curate”, at the initiative of both artists, which will take place on Thursday 26 January.
Meeting in 2007 within the vibrant atmosphere of the Beaux-Arts in Paris, Iván and Pauline form an artist couple whose individual practices develop in parallel to joint projects based on concepts of presentations, curatorial events, residencies and other performative games for which the artists rewrite the rules. The exhibition “Rising Action” unites for the first time in theUK
Iván Argote’s practice deals with social, political and art historical fields through mediums as varied as video, photography, sculpture and painting. Being simultaneously the director and main actor in his work, Iván interrogates with humour the views and perspectives imposed by our social positions but also the status of an artwork and the notion of interactivity, which he addresses through a fictionalisation of the everyday.
Pauline Bastard invites us into a world where fiction and reality are entangled and at the heart of which misleading fictions reign. Through mediums such as video and sculpture, she plays with and defies narrative processes through the phenomenon of detachment, re-appropriation or semantic displacement. Popular objects and everyday materials are omnipresent in her practice, creating a complicit game with the spectator where the veracity of their fictional and dramatic potential is questioned.
Meeting in 2007 within the vibrant atmosphere of the Beaux-Arts in Paris, Iván and Pauline form an artist couple whose individual practices develop in parallel to joint projects based on concepts of presentations, curatorial events, residencies and other performative games for which the artists rewrite the rules. The exhibition “Rising Action” unites for the first time in the
Iván Argote’s practice deals with social, political and art historical fields through mediums as varied as video, photography, sculpture and painting. Being simultaneously the director and main actor in his work, Iván interrogates with humour the views and perspectives imposed by our social positions but also the status of an artwork and the notion of interactivity, which he addresses through a fictionalisation of the everyday.
Pauline Bastard invites us into a world where fiction and reality are entangled and at the heart of which misleading fictions reign. Through mediums such as video and sculpture, she plays with and defies narrative processes through the phenomenon of detachment, re-appropriation or semantic displacement. Popular objects and everyday materials are omnipresent in her practice, creating a complicit game with the spectator where the veracity of their fictional and dramatic potential is questioned.
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