Off / Fóra: July 13 – September 3, 2006

Off / Fóra: July 13 – September 3, 2006

Diputación de Pontevedra

June 30, 2006

29th Pontevedra Art Biennial
Off / Fóra: Imaginary Movements between Galicia and the Southern Cone, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay

Dates: July 13 September 3, 2006
Location: Pontevedra, Spain
Symposium: July 14-15, 2006

www.bienal.depontevedra.es

The Diputación de Pontevedra is pleased to announce Off / Fóra, the 29th Pontevedra Art Biennial, to take place between July 13 and September 3, 2006 in Pontevedra, Spain. Curated by the Argentine Victoria Noorthoorn, the Biennial includes 29 artists from Argentina, Chile, Galicia and Uruguay that explore the phenomena of emigration, mobility and difference today. It will be the first European Biennial to give Latin America, and, specifically the Southern Cone, such a central position.
Off / Fóra, explores emigration as a global, sociological, historical, cultural, and psychological phenomenon. Off / Fóra considers the four participating countries as representatives of the problems of the contemporary being in a transnational market where the migrant plays a central role. Off / Fóra delves into the question of how feelings of belonging, roots and place are constituted, and how ideas of nation, identity and tradition are problematized. These questions are explored from a wide perspective where the concept of identification is permanently re-constructed, and the stereotype challenged. Off / Fóra explores the situation of the migrant or the exile, on the basis of the notion of the artist as a political figure and symbolic analyst of domains, ideas, forms, and languages. Off / Fóra considers imagination of vital power for the subject; as it allows him to project change, to consider the possibility of migrating, and to visualize the existence of a different world for the future. Off / Fóra proposes a crossing of boundaries, where the artist takes the limit as a place of debate and extends the frontiers of his own practice. One of the strategies to effect this leap is fiction, understood as an imaginary journey. Off / Fóra establishes a dialogue in space that privileges resonance, echo, and disturbance over the refuge offered by narrative coherence or nationality.

Participating Artists:

Argentina: Eduardo Basualdo, Aili Chen, Marina De Caro, Ana Gallardo, Sebastián Gordín, Roberto Jacoby, Daniel Joglar, Patricio Larrambebere, Esteban Pastorino, and Judi Werthein.

Chile: Pablo Chiuminatto, Nury González, Josefina Guilisasti, Mario Navarro, and Bernardo Oyarzún.

Galicia: Xosé Artiaga, Vari Caramés, Din Matamoro, Holga Méndez, Andrés Pinal, Carlos Rial, Diego Santomé, and Xesús Vázquez.

Uruguay: Luis Camnitzer, Ricardo Lanzarini, Marco Maggi, Mario Sagradini, Martín Sastre, and Cecilia Vignolo.
Curatorial Team Director: José Carlos Valle Pérez / Curator: Victoria Noorthoorn
Advisors: Cecilia Brunson (Chile) / Miguel Fernández-Cid (Galicia) / Gabriel Peluffo Linari (Uruguay)
Catalogue: The Biennial will publish a comprehensive catalogue, which will include essays by the Biennials Director, Curator and Advisors, Sociologists Arjun Appadurai, Saskia Sassen and Ramón Villares, as well as texts by the participating artists, and full-color illustrations on the artists works at the Biennial. Approximate number of pages: 250.
Symposium: The symposium will take place July 14 and 15, 2006. It will include presentations by Olivier Debroise, Ticio Escobar, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Saskia Sassen, Virginia Torrente, and Ramón Villares, as well as by participating artists, to be moderated by the Biennials Curator and Advisors.
Support: Off / Fóra counts with the sponsorship of the Ayuntamiento de Pontevedra, Xunta de Galicia, Caixanova, Dragados, and Fujitsu in Spain, as well as the support of the General Direction of Cultural Affaire of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, the Spanish Embassies in Argentina and Uruguay, the Spanish Cultural Centers in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, and Delmiro Méndez e Hijo S.A. The projects of the artists Aili Chen, Marina de Caro, Ana Gallardo, Holga Méndez, Esteban Pastorino and Judi Werthein are possible, in part, thanks to the generous support of the American Center Foundation.

www.bienal.depontevedra.es

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