Muestra 06
Paso [Passage] by The Andes House ● Soy una foto [I am a Photo] by Cristóbal Palma
26/07/2013 - 06/09/2013
Scar mountain range
Curatorial text by Martin Huberman
Exhibition 06 crosses the Andes Mountains, and sets foot in Santiago de Chile, to give shape to Monoambiente’s first international exhibition. The exhibition is a tension between the potency of the mountain range as a physical frontier in contrast to its dissipation as a cultural frontier in the face of the powerful crossroads of information that exists today, allowing for exchange, share and enhance the encounter.
On the one hand we invited The Andes House studio, whose work forges a fundamental link with material experimentation in the development of a vast catalogue of objects for the home, and on the other Cristóbal Palma, one of the continent’s most renowned architectural photographers, through whose lens the most outstanding works of recent years have passed.
The Andes House makes the process a permeable system that can be moved and thus break the distance that separates the studio from the gallery where the work unfolds to take over the space. The piece is at the same time reminiscent of that which separates us, the mountain range, bending the sense of the border towards that which also unites us. Paso shelters us in a sort of flag or court cloth that contains those who brandish it and make it a place of belonging. Palma ventures into the world of objects through a piece constructed in neon that attempts against the meaninglessness of the multiplication of self-referential images that flood the social networks.