Unerasable Memories
Ein historischer Blick auf die Sammlung Videobrasil. Konfliktive Episoden der Geschichte aus der Perspektive bekannter Kunstschaffender. Kurator: Agustín Pérez Rubio.
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Letter to My Father
(Standing by the Fence), 2005
Video, 14’17”
Quasi-generic, imprecise images contrast with concrete, specific words and pieces of information that convey to us the supposed subject of this piece: September 11, 2001. The artist does not set out to reflect about the event in the past or in a possible future so much as to underscore, in an emotional tone —as a letter to his father— about its affective genealogy, its effects, statistical figures, and the personal experiences of those involved when faced with the void that has replaced the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The sole clear, specific reference repeated throughout the video is the image of a railing, highlighting that which requires representation: the immigrant, the foreigner.
Carlos Motta is a multidisciplinary artist whose work draws upon political history in an attempt to create counter-narratives that recognize suppressed histories, communities, and identities. Motta’s work has been presented internationally in venues such as Tate Modern, London; The New Museum, The Guggenheim Museum, and MoMA/PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; and Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá.
© Still: Carlos Motta
Courtesy Galeria Filomena Soares, Lissabon; Instituto de Visión, Bogotá; galerie mor.charpentier, Paris
Ein historischer Blick auf die Sammlung Videobrasil. Konfliktive Episoden der Geschichte aus der Perspektive bekannter Kunstschaffender. Kurator: Agustín Pérez Rubio.