6 September-25 October 2014
“Cut, Paste, Repair: A Hundred Years of Collage”, curated by Gabriela Rangel
In commemoration of the centennial anniversary of collage, Sicardi Gallery presents an exhibition of ground-breaking new works by Kader Attia (Algeria-France), Lorenzo Bueno (Argentina-USA), Lenora de Barros (Brazil), Ramiro Cháves (Argentina-Mexico), Arturo Herrera (Venezuela-USA), and Cristóbal Lehyt (Chile-USA).
At the present, collage reverberates in the Global South and in the peripheral North as an incisive, yet reparative, practice that has the potential of revealing colonial agency, deploring monolinguism, and disavowing hetero-normative attitudes embedded in more and more depoliticized technologically fragmented realities. To cut something is followed by a restorative process, a repair of the object or thing that has been ripped apart and therefore separated from its substance.
Each of these artist-bricoleurs propose singular forms of collaging that remain legible, tangible, and still cannot be grasped unless we admit with Serge Gruzinski that: “In theory reparation stops where substitution and replacement begin (…) To repair is therefore also to connect – times, people, things … – and that’s why any global history of humanity must pay a profound attention to this gesture seemingly simple and commonplace which often consists in inventing a way to insert one world into another, not in a gratuitous manner, but to yield meaning and social manners.”
(text adapted the gallery’s press materials)
INFORMATION
Sicardi Gallery
1506 West Alabama Street
Houston, Texas 77006 USA
(713) 529-1313
Hours:
Tuesday-Saturday, 10AM-6PM
or by appointment
Image:
Modern Architecture Genealogy #3
by Kader Attia
17.52″x24.41″
collage
2014
Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi Gallery, Houston