The proposal seeks to recover and broaden the meaning of craftwork, art and technology by creating tension between different and contrasting outputs: connecting, exposing and disseminating, in poetic and unprecedented technological form – ancestral techniques and their makers. Simultaneously, and inversely, the objectives of this work seek to expose current modern-day technology in a similar vein – poetically and in unprecedented form. It is from this game of apparent contradictions between periods of time and different cultures, between tradition and innovation, isolation and interconnection, simplicity and complexity, past and future, that the objective of the project emerges: to unite worlds.
The way in which this is proposed, as well as its content and form, juxtaposing craftwork with technology and a documentary register in one single piece, creates a sense of dislocation and foreignness which prompts questions about the role of the artist and the producer, as well as the hybrid role of the artist/curator. The idea is to decentralize and demystify the role of the artist and value of their cosmogony, habitually considered to inhabit a level above all others.
Thus, the works and the curatorship highlight the way in which different techniques both make and represent their time and place. In other words, art is proposed as a collective, experimental and multidisciplinary practice with the purpose of stimulating, expanding and providing meaning to its own field
Artista: Patricia Hakim
