展览 Exhibition | 生活的快乐 Juego de living by Laura Ortego

ACENTRICSPACE新展

驻地艺术家Laura Ortego个展

生活的快乐

开幕时间：2024年5月18日（周六）下午4点

ACENTRICSPACE Upcoming Exhibition

Resident Artist Laura Ortego solo Exhibition

Juego de living

Opening: May 18th (Saturday) 16:00, 2024

前言 Introduction

一个小盒子放在岩石地上。它看起来像悬崖。背景是海吗？或者只是更多的岩石？这是悬崖吗？是一个小盒子吗？在沙漠景观中，这些扶手椅和咖啡桌旁边的沙发怎么样？它们是缩小版的，还是真人大小的，是沙漠还是远处有水道？这张照片中什么是远的，什么是近的？即使在我们认为自己知道的情况下，问题是否仍然存在？什么是远？过去这些物体从哪里来？还是未来，抓住了他们，为这张照片进行了暂定的翻译？附近是什么？也许，在这个礼物中，我们站在房间里，与每件作品进行无声的对话？

“Juego de Living”（客厅布景或生活的游戏，或游戏的生活）中的拍摄对象是由来自世界不同地方的女性选择的，并提出成为其他事物的一部分：许多主观性通过单一的主观性和相机。

即使我们不完全理解我们正在看的是什么对象，我们也确实了解它们涉及多少内容，它们压缩了多少。照片中的物体有点像在跳动、沸腾。观察了一段时间后，它周围似乎出现了完整的电子运动。

是一个小盒子吗？卷尺？手机屏幕有缺口？我们的手指可以感觉到触摸，我们的手掌可以感觉到重量。这张照片清楚地表明：该物体被触摸、闻过、移动过。这是一个身份。它被擦拭干净，从一个架子换到另一个架子，放进抽屉里，然后又拿出来。它从一个家到另一个家。它有一种刺鼻但又谨慎的气味，让人想起另一个时间、另一个地方或所爱的人。就像我们的宝藏一样，它在太空中占有一席之地。

- Laura Wittner

A little box rests on a rocky ground. It looks like a cliff. Is that the sea in the background? Or is it just more rock? Is it a cliff? Is it a little box? And what about these armchairs and a sofa next to a coffee table in a desert landscape? Are they miniatures, are they life-size, is it a desert or is there a watercourse in the distance? What is far and what is near in this photograph? And even in those cases when we think we know – doesn’t the question remain? What is far? The past where these objects come from? Or the future, which seized them for this photo in a tentative translation? And what is near? This present, perhaps, in which, standing in the room, we have a silent conversation with each of the pieces?

The photographed objects in “Juego de living” (living room set or the game of living, or living as in a game) were chosen by women from different places of the world and offered to be part of something else: many subjectivities tied together by a single subjectivity and a camera.

Even when we don’t exactly understand what object is it that we are looking at, we do understand how much they involve, they compress. It’s a bit as if, in the photo, the object were beating, and boiling. After watching it for a while, a whole electrical activity seems to build up around it.

Is it a little box? A measuring tape? A cellphone with a chipped screen? Our fingers can perceive the touch, our palms can feel the weight. The photo makes it clear: that the object has been touched, smelled, and moved. It’s an identity. It was given a wipe down, changed from one shelf to another, it was put in a drawer, and taken out again. It went from one home to another. It has a pungent but also discreet scent reminiscent of another time, another place or someone loved. Just like our treasures, it claim its place in space.

- Laura Wittner

部分参展作品 Selected Works

开放时间/地址

星期二到星期日 10:00-17:00

(公共节假日休息)

上海市青浦区朱家角证大大拇指广场12号

Opening Hours/Address

Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 - 17:00

(Closed on public holidays)

No.12 Thumb Plaza, Zhujiajiao, Qingpu, Shanghai

ACENTRICSPACE

ACENTRICSPACE是由艺术家创立和运营的空间和艺术家驻地计划，坐落于上海市青浦区朱家角。基于“Acentric”的理念，致力于为艺术家提供自由，无国界的创作空间和交流平台。ACENTRICSPACE的实践范围包括举办当代艺术展览、持续运作的艺术家驻地计划、以及面向大众的艺术工作坊等。与此同时，ACENTRICSPACE鼓励国际艺术家在中国当代社会的语境，和本土艺术家展开对话；在多文化表达方式下激发新的视角和灵感。

ACENTRICSPACE is an artist-run space and art residency based in Zhujiajiao, Shanghai. As the name ‘Acentric’ suggests, we strive to provide a creative space and exchange platform for contemporary artists without restrictions and boundaries. ACENTRICSPACE is dedicated to showcasing contemporary art exhibitions, and artists in residence, providing workshops for the public, etc. In addition, ACENTRICSPACE encourages collaboration between international artists and local artists in the context of Chinese contemporary society; where multicultural expression sparks fresh perspectives and ideas.

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艺术家驻地 Artist Residency

ACENTRICSPACE艺术家驻地鼓励年轻艺术家在学院毕业后的继续创作，和帮助职业艺术家在陌生环境中激发出新的创作灵感。ACENTRICSPACE艺术家驻地致力于为所有参与的驻地艺术家们提供理想的创作和居住环境，目前全年开放申请。在驻地期间，我们鼓励驻地艺术家们创作新的作品，和中国大陆以及国际艺术家们展开交流和分享。

ACENTRICSPACE Art Residency encourages young artists to continue their practice upon graduation and practicing artists to be kept inspired. ACENTRICSPACE aims to provide an ideal creative and living environment for all artists. It opens to all contemporary artists throughout the year, during the residency, artists are encouraged to create a new body of work and engage in conversation with artists from China and around the world.