![]() ![]() At the root of these works is the question of technology’s effects – whether distorting, surveilling, or life-giving – on human beings.”īio (source: Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York): Tishan Hsu (b. Phone-Breath-Bed and Breath 3 (both 2021) play on the technologies that simultaneously disembody and connect human beings, with particular attention to medical apparatuses. Watching 2 (2021)’s psychedelic raster pattern is embellished with a nipple, a belly button, the display screen of a thermometer gun, and imagery related to emotional surveillance technologies. Hsu’s most recent works, like Watching 3 and Breath 7 (both 2022), use innovative fabrication techniques and materials – particularly silicone and alkyd, a durable synthetic resin – to call to mind bodily orifices, organic matter, or biotic growths. His early bulging paintings and tiled sculptures evoke the hours he spent immersed in such a technological orbit: saturated with static, bits of digital data, scratchy surfaces, floating orifices, and fragmented body parts, these works dissolve the threshold between screen and flesh. Google is my memory.” In the early 1980s, Hsu had been working as a “word processor” at a Wall Street law firm, encountering computers before they were widely accessible. ![]() As he has said, “I consider myself a cyborg. Official description (by Madeline Weisburg): “Tishan Hsu has described technology’s integration with the body as his central artistic preoccupation. The team considers that, in view of the artists’ backgrounds, they are capable of rigorously interpreting these guidelines to a high standard of quality.Tishan Hsu is one of the artists, curator Cecilia Alemani has chosen for the 59th International Art Exhibition “The Milk of Dreams” in Venice, Italy. In accordance with these criteria, the curatorial team composed by the Commissioner, Ms Patricia Bentancur, and Mr Alfredo Torres, has proposed that the artists Raquel Bessio, Juan Burgos and Pablo Uribe should develop a project in order to put this course of action into practice. At the same time, visual productions committed to the aesthetics of risk have particularly been taken into consideration. Thus, it has been planned that not only will the internal areas of the Uruguayan Pavilion be put to use, but also the external areas specifically, the flight of steps which provides access to the pavilion itself. To offer a prismatic view of its inherent variety, laying down lines which involve both manual crafting and the employment of technological resources, narratives which are situated on the boundaries between issues of identity and locality, as well as including global aspects. The curatorial script for this new contribution to the 53rd Venice Biennale seeks to reflect the significant dimensions of contemporary visual arts in Uruguay. National Director of Culture, Ministry of Education and Culture, Uruguay These are not examples which fully encompass the multiple and heterogeneous quality of Uruguayan art, but constitute, rather, a proposal which gives a specific account of the dialogue which takes place between local and global features within a society located on the geographical-if not artistic or symbolic-periphery of the contemporary world.” Beyond any aesthetic or political-aesthetic considerations which may have endorsed the works of art representing Uruguay in the past, the works sent to this year’s Venice Biennial are an attempt to show the diversity of contemporary art as it is manifested in this country of less than four million inhabitants, in a context in which the dynamics of the globalisation process are interwoven with strong processes of localisation. Although there may have been an earlier one1, the first documented participation took place in 1954, for the 27th Venice Biennial, and included the painter José Cúneo and the sculptor Severino Pose.Īlthough Uruguay usually sent the work of a single artist, on some occasions-such as in 1960 and in 1964-several artists were chosen to represent the country. “The works of art Uruguay has sent to the 53rd Venice Biennial are the latest in a long, rich history of Biennial participation. Juan Burgos – Raquel Bessio – Pablo UribeĪt the Uruguayan pavilion in the Giardini della Biennale The official Uruguayan representation at the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia will feature
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