Holes
2014
Exhibit statement
Orifices in dialogue
Orifices open up possibilities, to go through them, to see beyond them, and to imagine other possible worlds, as well as to enter the interior, invisible world of one's own body and those of others.
They place in doubt our physical individuation and dissolve the borders that separate us, violating the surface of the skin that protects us and its accustomed function, and suggesting the illusory nature of the security with which we usually tread the apparently firm earth beneath our feet.
They offer the possibility, then, of new interrelationships between people and things, such as those that are established in the exhibit "Holes", and —through them— new emotions and experiences.
In this show, the visual artist John R. Thompson has played the role of interlocutor-curator, placing in dialogue the possibilities offered by diverse artworks and objects that allude to the theme of the orifice, and thus proposing to us an immersive mode of relating to our context, inviting us to question the perceptual habits that tend to restrict the experience of art in the established art system.
The exhibition, in this sense, and the act of curatorship, here embody and propitiate openness to living the world in ways that are not delimited by fixed categories, but rather allow us to imagine a life beyond the dichotomies and conceptual dogmas that characterize our western formation.
Through their interrelationships, then, the works and objects that form a part of "Holes" become more than they are individually, and are potentialized in different ways, through an act of conceptual and spatial intervention, the possibilities of which are extended continually with each new spectator and format of presentation: in this case, happily, that of the printed page.
Karen Cordero Reiman
Mexico City
Autumn 2014
Featured Artists
Elaine Angel, Gerda Grüber, Kinke Kooi, Adolphe Lechtenberg, Gustavo Monroy, Luisa Restrepo, Panca, Jason Pofhl, Sam Still and John R. Thompson.
© JOHN R. THOMPSON. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL THE ARTWORKS AND CURATOR'S STATEMENTS ARE PROPERTY OF THEIR AUTHORS.