kurimanzutto - sofía taboas at muac l mexico city

sofía taboas at muac l mexico city

Territories of Desire
Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo
curator: Cecilia Delgado

During her research for Superficies del deseo (Surfaces of Desire) Curator Cecilia Delgado became interested in the perception of desire within capitalist über, and the possibility of deconstructing the representations of social conventions. "There is, an ideological regulation of desire. Power codifies desire in order to govern individuals, though we may find lines of flight by which to escape the normalized territories that answer to the system's archetypal imaginary. Surfaces of desire aims to dismantle the forms of the social distribution of pleasure that have been capitalized by means of its archetypal representation. In order to do so, this exhibition explores the theme of desire in contemporary art along two axes: first, an attempt to subvert its administration through the dislocation of the representation of the body as a territory of desire in favor of bodily differentials; and second, desire as a pure affirmation of flow without representation, which produces only discharges of fields of pure affectivity and intensity."

The project includes works both from the MUAC Collections and loans from a number of sources. The artists are: Marcela Astorga, Georgina Bringas, Dorothy Cross, Rineke Dijkstra, María Ezcurra, Angus Fairhurst, Anthony Goicolea, Gabriela Gutiérrez, Gary Hill, Graciela Iturbide, Sarah Lucas, Juan Pablo Macías, César Martínez, Ana Mendieta, Erick Meyenberg, Gabriel de la Mora, Christian Siekmeier, Valeska Soares, Sofía Taboas, Wolfgang Tillmans, Franz West and Beatriz Zamora.

*Information taken from the press release.

Sofía Taboas, Ombligo, 2002

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