VICTORIA JOST | CURATORIAL WORK: BIENALSUR, CARLOS GUTIÉRREZ (ARG)
AN ECHOING DREAM \ EL ECO DE UN SUEÑO
SAT 07 OCT 4.00PM - FRI 1 DEC 5.00PM
OPENING EVENT SAT 07 OCT, 4.00-6.00PM
FREE TO ATTEND
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Monday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Tuesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Wednesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday closed
Sunday closed
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Platform Arts is wheelchair-accessible via our Gheringhap St entrance. Unlocked, accessible bathrooms are available on both ground and first floors.
For accessibility enquiries, please directly contact us at hello@platformarts.org.au
Please note, Platform Arts is a dry venue.
Platform Arts in collaboration with BIENALSUR: International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South, presents the work of Victoria Jost curated by Carlos Gutiérrez. Platform Arts is excited to represent Australia in the 2023 iteration of BIENALSUR.
Meteorological medicine or when something intangible manifests itself in wakefulness
An Echoing Dream, by Victoria Jost, is an exhibition that unfolds in a circulation space within a building, which acts as a large lung that regulates the circulation of air from the entrance to multiple levels and spaces. The artist develops a series of ideas and intuitions about the human encounter with non-human materialities and positions interpretations based on a sensibility that is agencized by the slow and silent encounter with objects without a purpose or evident destiny. She adopts the particularities of the place and suspends trajectories, so that the exhibition is experienced as a state and not as a place, as a conjunction of atmospheric conditions rather than as a group of fixed images. The lighting of the space defines a transitory state and stupor: nothing is at all sharp, clear, or accessible at first. In line with the exhibited pieces, the conditions of the place are altered by a strange agent that is capable of introducing new registers in everyday perception through subtle and punctual gestures.
In An Echoing Dream, those things, impulses and other abstractions that belong to the domain of the intangible manifest themselves, folding over one another, motivating the appearance of works that appear like particles of water in a cloud: dispersed but connected, part of an extensive and sustained storm.
Carlos Gutiérrez , Curator
2023
An Echoing Dream showcases a collection of new works by the artist that explore magic, dreams and fiction and promises audiences a sensitive encounter with objects of a strange and wonderful nature.
For sales and enquiries, please contact curator@platformarts.org.au.
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From its Km 0 at MUNTREF (Museums of the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero) Hotel de Inmigrantes venue in the City of Buenos Aires, to Tokyo, BIENALSUR maps out a new cartography for contemporary art that spans 18,370 kilometres, simultaneously connecting art spaces, creators, audiences and communities from all continents.
As of 2015, a series of Global South meetings were held that gave rise to a dynamic project rooted in dialogues, exchanges and presentations making up a diverse and sustained public programme. BIENALSUR was subsequently built on this foundation.
The first edition of BIENALSUR was held in 2017, featuring the participation of more than 400 artists across approximately 80 venues in 34 cities spanning 16 countries. In 2019, the map extended its reach, encompassing 112 venues in 47 cities in 21 countries. Despite the challenges posed by the pandemic in 2021, the biennial took place in 120 venues across 48 cities in 24 countries of the Americas, Asia and Euro. Over 1800 artists from all over the world participated throughout the first three editions.
Unprecedented in its methodology, BIENALSUR incorporates works and projects that arise from open, free, international calls without pre-established topics. This inclusive approach aims to encourage artists and curators to conceive specific proposals without the constraints of predetermined themes, and to pursue their own explorations.
From the Open Call emerge the itineraries as the primary curatorial axes of each edition. The selection criterion for the projects is the quality of each submission, both in conceptual and aesthetic terms.
With a steadfast determination to explore alternative dynamics for art and culture in the pursuit of new logics of artistic and social circulation both locally and globally, BIENALSUR 2023 continues to uphold the right to culture and diversity.
Over the course of six months, artists, curators, institutions, and communities from various corners of the world will join forces with growing simultaneity. amplifying their efforts to actively address contemporary challenges.
