Liliana Porter. Diálogos y desobediencias(Liliana Porter. Dialogues and Disobediences)

In the context of the 15 year celebrations of the ARTIUM - Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, the institution presents the first retrospective exhibition in Spain by Argentinean artist Liliana Porter. The show will remain open to the public until August 27. Titled Liliana Porter. Diálogos y desobediencias (Liliana Porter. Dialogues and Disobediences,) the exhibition curated by Estrella de Diego represents an opportunity to delve into the ludic, and yet meaningful—both as it relates to the exhibition space as well as to the proportions used—proposals by Porter. With this retrospective, the Basque museum surveys the various approaches used by Liliana Porter (painting, engraving, video, installation, sculpture, theatre, and drawing) to infuse her work with a highly sophisticated sense of humor, thoughtful irony, and a personal and stimulating subtlety. Liliana Porter advocates a world in which history and the time we live in are told from new perspectives that brake with pre-established orders. With this purpose in mind, and regardless of the medium used, she seeks to deconstruct and reconfigure that which had been preconceived in order to propose new ways of understanding time and space and build new languages from which to approach the changing surroundings. The exhibition presented at ARTIUM covers works by Lilian Porter created between 1969 and 2016 that belong to international public and private collections. The show is organized in three sections and in a circular manner because Porter "does not conceive her work chronologically." In her work time is always used to propose "a new question," to confront and engage the observer. While her work relies on humor, irony is used to pose, according to Estrella de Diego, "important questions directed at the most intelligent viewers." The three sections of the retrospective are: "Rips and Tasks," "The Route and the Line," and "Conversions and Doubles." The exhibition was jointly produced by the ARTIUM and the Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo in Santiago de Compostela, where the show will travel before its possible presentation in Latin America.