Sans Filet
17 Oct – 15 Nov 2020
Partcipating artists:
Ana Navas
Karla Kaplun
Javier Barrios
Fernando Palma
Hideyo Ohtsuki
Guest curator: Pablo Cendejas
Text: Hellène Aligant, Miri Hamada
date: 17 Oct – 15 Nov 2020
opening hours:
Thu. and Fri. 12:00-19:00
Sat. and Sun. 12:00-18:00
*Admission Monday – Wednesday possible through reservation info@aoyamameguro.com
venue: Aoyama Meguro
2-30-6 Kamimeguro Meguroku Tokyo Japan 153-0051
Special thanks to: House of Gaga, Sperling Gallery and Kodama Gallery.
Aoyama Meguro is pleased to announce “Sans Filet” , will be held from Saturday Oct 17 to Saturday November 15, 2020.
Measures will be adopted to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
In french, Sans Filet describes a risky situation, an act performed without any safety net.
Working Sans Filet in the arts is an everyday routine, almost business as usual. How do artists manage to thrive under precarity and normalization of visibility as payment?
The title refers to an act of faith, whether it’s leaving the artwork’s destiny at the hands of a superior will, or working a craft so sharply that the safety is incorporated into the artist’s abilities. The spirituality of hazard and mystical occurrences guiding the eye that sees, the hand that collects, arrange, reproduce, create; the mystifying effect acquired through long hours perfectionning a seemingly pointless task, offering a glimpse of eternity.
The artworks displayed in Sans Filet revolve around this peculiar type of spirituality.
Objects gathered through walks, wanderings, trips; talismans holding the testimonies of their own history, powerful narrative-makers congregated together to form new speculations around our past. Attention put to the most meticulous details, the time given to practice; all are ways to reach transcendence through materials. From monotony, we acquire a wider sense of time, a renovated space which expands upon the idea of the self and the notion of now. These practices allow for the possibility of a malleable past; defined by our current actions and creations.
Guest curator:
Juan Pablo Cendejas Fernández de Ortega (b. 1990 in Mexico City. )
Mexican artist and curator. He studied Communication Studies at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and Visual Arts, specializing in curation at the National Beauty Arts Institute, nicknamed “La Esmeralda”. He works closely with artists and other art professionals to further a curatiorial style that brings new artistic ideas close to the general public.
His work has been exhibited in Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Ex- Teresa (Arte Contemporáneo), Lodos Gallery (Mexico City) and others.