JULIETA ARANDA AT MUAC: DEALING WITH ORDER AND TIME
Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) presents Coordenadas claras para nuestra confusión (Clear coordinates for our confusion), by artist Julieta Aranda. This exhibition proposes to review the artist's production of the last decades from the perspective of her collaboration with time, understood not only as an object of research but also as an autonomous and active interlocutor. It is curated by Alejandra Labastida.
Combining various disciplines and media in systemic sculptures, Aranda navigates how time navigates the different fields of interaction with personal, biological, scientific, geopolitical, economic, philosophical, literary, etc., in order to recognize the poetic events in which it escapes the millennial effort of the Western anthropological machine to domesticate it and turn it into a tool for planetary domination.
Aranda's work deals with the implications of defining humans as beings with time on different scales and planes. As there is no clock or calendar that works for all living beings, this time is always subjective. This conversation began with You Had No 9th of May! in which the artist explores the arbitrariness of the international timeline and the decision of the Kiribati archipelago to alter it in order to reverse the division of its territory into two temporalities. With her project Time Bank, in collaboration with Anton Vidokle, she moved her investigation into the realm of economic exchanges and the possibility of infiltrating it with a traffic governed by jouissance. Her most recent pieces incorporate both microbiological and universe scales: from escapology, which drives the exploration of space, to the search for the universal particle, and what we can learn from the non-human terrestrial co-inhabitants.
In energetic terms, beyond the delusions and fantasies of time and the political operations that sustain them, all living beings are entities in flux, borrowing order from the universe and returning it as disorder. Would it not be better then to learn to inhabit contradiction and confusion? Aranda's conversations Aranda con el Tiempo (Aranda with Time) offer a series of coordinates to go towards that end.
Coordenadas claras para nuestra confusión (Clear coordinates for our confusion). Exhibition by Julieta Aranda.
From November 23, 2024 to May 11, 2025.
Muac Museum. Av. Insurgentes Sur 3000, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico.
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