MCA Curator Naomi Beckwith on Jimmy Robert and Contemporary Culture/Social Media

Описание: From http://www.mcachicago.org/ :

Jimmy Robert Vis-à-vis is the first major solo museum exhibition in the United States of work by Brussels-based artist Jimmy Robert. Born in Guadeloupe, an overseas region of France, Robert was raised and educated in Europe in the 1980s and 1990s—an era in which questions of citizenship and representation were hotly contested. Rather than creating conspicuously political artworks, Robert takes his cues from cultural figures of the recent past—avant-garde writers, filmmakers, visual artists—who were not only pioneers in their respective art forms but also deft at subtly registering the traumas and effects of their social conditions. Robert's concern for the body—both personal and political—in addition to his interest in the poetic potential of ephemeral materials unites much of his work, which ranges in media from photography, film, and video to sculpture and collaborative performance.

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