ExhibitionSeptember 20, 2022
Karen Lamassonne: Ruido / Noise
Ruido / Noise is the first international survey by Karen Lamassonne that will travel to KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, and Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín. This exhibition is organized by former SI Director Simon Castets, Curator at Large Laura McLean-Ferris, and Senior Curator Alison Coplan.
Lamassonne was a central figure in the male-dominated Cali and Bogotá art and film scenes of the 1970s and 80s. Throughout her career, she has focused on self-portraiture and depictions of intimacy. Her practice initially centered on painting, yet her involvement with cinema led to an engagement with video, photography, animation, storyboarding, and art direction. From her early years to today, the exhibit at the Swiss Institute shows Lamassonne’s radical, longstanding commitment to portraying women as desiring subjects.
Lamasonne’s paintings, photographs, and collages are characteristically guided by a search for spaces in which to be: locations where it is possible to express oneself and one’s sensuality, alone or with others. From the tiled bathrooms where a room of one’s own can be found behind locked doors to the urban bridges and parks seen in the Cali paintings, Lamassonne’s work presents varied possibilities for occupying spaces as a form of erotics in a shifting sociocultural landscape.
In conjunction with the exhibition and in partnership with SI, Anthology Film Archives will present a series of screenings starting in September that focuses on the film work of Karen Lamassonne and Luis Ospina.
For more information, visit: http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/55062
Lamassonne was a central figure in the male-dominated Cali and Bogotá art and film scenes of the 1970s and 80s. Throughout her career, she has focused on self-portraiture and depictions of intimacy. Her practice initially centered on painting, yet her involvement with cinema led to an engagement with video, photography, animation, storyboarding, and art direction. From her early years to today, the exhibit at the Swiss Institute shows Lamassonne’s radical, longstanding commitment to portraying women as desiring subjects.
Lamasonne’s paintings, photographs, and collages are characteristically guided by a search for spaces in which to be: locations where it is possible to express oneself and one’s sensuality, alone or with others. From the tiled bathrooms where a room of one’s own can be found behind locked doors to the urban bridges and parks seen in the Cali paintings, Lamassonne’s work presents varied possibilities for occupying spaces as a form of erotics in a shifting sociocultural landscape.
In conjunction with the exhibition and in partnership with SI, Anthology Film Archives will present a series of screenings starting in September that focuses on the film work of Karen Lamassonne and Luis Ospina.
For more information, visit: http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/55062
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