FLOWS AND DISPLACEMENTS - MARINA CAMARGO AT ZIELINSKY
Tras la piel del mapa (Behind the skin of the map) is the first solo exhibition of Marina Camargo (1980, Maceió, Brazil) at the Zielinsky Gallery in Barcelona.
The interest in understanding and distorting the established order of the world drives Marina Camargo’s work towards an expanded notion of displacement, both at a physical level—marked by the relationship with spaces and places—and at a conceptual level—the idea of moving perception beyond codes and conventions. The exhibition focuses on her recent works and includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, and video.
From the beginning, Camargo’s research has been marked by an expanded notion of drawing, in which image and thought are reciprocally constituted and, from there, structure the work process itself. Issues related to cartography began to interest her during the period she lived in Barcelona (where she studied Visual Culture at the University of Barcelona), and since then, issues related to various notions of displacement have become recurrent in her practice. Returning to Barcelona after twenty years is like returning to the references that have structured her pieces over the subsequent years.
A mirrored, floating, cut world; a soft and permeable border. The works by Camargo in the exhibition suggest other conceptions of territory. Maps, conceived as graphic representations of control and power, are twisted or redrawn by the artist in a flow that takes various directions, shaping continents, inverting scales, trembling the edges. A gesture that occupies the scale of poetry, imagination, and desire.
Marina Camargo (1980, Maceió, Brazil) lives and works between Berlin, Germany, and Porto Alegre, Brazil. She has held numerous exhibitions in different contexts and countries, including: 14th Shanghai Biennale, China; A Certa Sombra, Instituto Ling, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Cartografías fluidas y otras metamorfosis del espacio, Fundación Giménez Lorente/Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain; Shifting: Displaced, Warehouse, Interloper, Seattle, USA; 37th Panorama da Arte Brasileira: sob as cinzas, brasa, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil; EXiS Experimental Film & Video Festival, Seoul, South Korea; Mapping the cartographic: contemporary approaches to planetarization, Drugo More, Rijeka, Croatia.
Tras la piel del mapa (Behind the skin of the map). Exhibition by Marina Camargo.
Until September 6, 2024.
Zielinsky. Passatge de Mercader, 10. Barcelona, Spain.
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