Having as a point of departure art production processes, working with places as they are given to her and limited by the materials available around them, Elena Bajo rearranges these found elements into a new composition, juxtaposing the identities of prefigured social and political spaces and dimensions, creating a sometimes cryptic but always revealing new code of signifiers. A re-staging of a space and time, of the past, into future events that uses chance, contingency and ambiguity of the moment.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Elena Bajo: Artist's Statement
Elena Bajo's concept-generated practice is concerned with the social and political dimensions of everyday spaces, the strategies to conceptualize resistance, the poetics of ideologies, and the relationship between temporalities and subjectivities. She works individually and collectively across installation, sculpture, painting, performance, participatory events, film, text and writing. She uses exhibition spaces a studio or laboratories, where an experimental, itinerant, site-specific performed work unfolds, building improvised actions and choreographed movements.
Having as a point of departure art production processes, working with places as they are given to her and limited by the materials available around them, Elena Bajo rearranges these found elements into a new composition, juxtaposing the identities of prefigured social and political spaces and dimensions, creating a sometimes cryptic but always revealing new code of signifiers. A re-staging of a space and time, of the past, into future events that uses chance, contingency and ambiguity of the moment.
Having as a point of departure art production processes, working with places as they are given to her and limited by the materials available around them, Elena Bajo rearranges these found elements into a new composition, juxtaposing the identities of prefigured social and political spaces and dimensions, creating a sometimes cryptic but always revealing new code of signifiers. A re-staging of a space and time, of the past, into future events that uses chance, contingency and ambiguity of the moment.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Opening, QVNOXWII, Friday Feb 19th, 8pm at 86 Forsyth, 5th Floor, Chinatown, NYC
Curated by Scott Keightley on behalf of Red Window Blue
"We Give You Sweaty Hugs"
Michael Jones McKean, Elena Bajo, Printer Matter as a Democratic Union/Artist, Sean Keenan, Cornrow Rider, Megan Plunkett, Maximillian Schubert, Gregory Fong, Travess Smalley, Colin Snapp, Timothy Hull, Dave McDermott, Sol’sax, Dmitri Hertz, Milano Chow, Colby Bird, Eric Mack, Siebren Versteeg, Clara Carter, Micole Lesser, Mika Tajima, Devin Kenny, Daniel Adams Turner, Max Roseglass, Rochelle Goldberg, A Posse of Butterflies, The Ooga Booga Goat, Nick van Woert, Ian Law, Robin Cameron, Medium Rare, Kingboro Press, Noah Venezia, Egan Frantz, Astrid Putrid, Jimmy Raskin, Big James Harley, Multiples/Zine Table
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Michael Jones McKean, Elena Bajo, Printer Matter as a Democratic Union/Artist, Sean Keenan, Cornrow Rider, Megan Plunkett, Maximillian Schubert, Gregory Fong, Travess Smalley, Colin Snapp, Timothy Hull, Dave McDermott, Sol’sax, Dmitri Hertz, Milano Chow, Colby Bird, Eric Mack, Siebren Versteeg, Clara Carter, Micole Lesser, Mika Tajima, Devin Kenny, Daniel Adams Turner, Max Roseglass, Rochelle Goldberg, A Posse of Butterflies, The Ooga Booga Goat, Nick van Woert, Ian Law, Robin Cameron, Medium Rare, Kingboro Press, Noah Venezia, Egan Frantz, Astrid Putrid, Jimmy Raskin, Big James Harley, Multiples/Zine Table
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