Opening: Thursday October 5th 6pm
Designed by members of the Frac Poitou-Charentes team, the exhibition Faire Barrage reflects a myriad of points of view, sensitivities, and approaches to its collection, and more specifically to its recent acquisitions. The works on display represent a turning point in how space and natural resources are used during this era of global upheaval. The human presence is decentred, intricately engaged in processes involving destruction, remediation or reorganisation of power relations. Within the framework of this exhibition, BIENALSUR presents the video Aequador by Laura Huertas Millán. It chronicles a journey along the Amazon River through a landscape dotted with abandoned modernist constructions, ruins or memories of a past utopia devoured by nature. In part documentary, in part science fiction, the work harks back to the remains of certain 20th century progressive policies in the Latin American forests and their coexistence with the present.