Carmen Amengual
\n1 + 1 = 3
\nthe tenuous arithmetic of kinship<\/p>\n
November 8\u2013December 21, 2018
\nOpening Reception: November 8, 6-9 PM
\n3240 N Springfield Ave. Chicago<\/p>\n
table is pleased to announce its inaugural solo project 1 + 1 = 3, the tenuous arithmetic of kinship, an exhibition of new
\nwork by Los Angeles based artist Carmen Amengual. This is the artist\u2019s first show in Chicago. 1 + 1 = 3, the tenuous arithmetic of kinship, is an installation composed of objects and two-channel slide\/video projections. Amengual experiments with oblique modes of representation and storytelling, presenting objects with sound, video and poetry, generating layered constellations of meaning.<\/p>\n
The installation confronts issues of loss and absence, considering the traces left behind by those who came before us.<\/p>\n
Investigating precarious archives and retracing ways of seeing and inhabiting space, Amengual turns the exhibition into a medium that connects present and past, proposing expanded notions of temporality. This is a space for becoming and for disposing one\u2019s self, in anticipation of what may be to come, where mortality is imbricated with interdependence, irreplaceability, and fragility. Projection and re-projection of someone else\u2019s visions focus an investigation into notions of otherness, togetherness and inheritance. Amengual\u2019s conceptual poetics conjures this \u201cother\u2019s\u201d presence, bringing it back across temporalities and locations to the space of the living, while reframing the present that the living occupy.<\/p>\n
Carmen Amengual grew up in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has lived in Los Angeles since 2012. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Buenos Aires and an M.F.A from the California Institute of the Arts. In 2016, she attended the CalArts REEF Residency where she co-founded the Laboratory for Latin American Art & Thinking (LATlab), an educational and curatorial platform for Latinx and Latin American artists in Los Angeles. Recently, she was an assistant curator of \u201cThe Words of Others: Le\u00f3n Ferrari and Rhetoric in Times of War,\u201d organized by Ruth Est\u00e9vez at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theatre (REDCAT), and has been a visiting instructor at the California Institute of the Arts. Carmen\u2019s artwork has been exhibited at Human Resources, E.D. Freeman Gallery, Dread Lounge (Los Angeles), CalArts (Valencia, California), EFC and Museo Quinta Trabucco (Buenos Aires).<\/p>\n
table is a temporary artist-run project space organized by Kyle Bellucci Johanson. Over the course of one year, table will host artists for solo shows and long-form discursive meals with invited cultural workers. table is an experiment, working between so-called discrete categories of subject and object, public and private, individual and collective, to situate practices and facilitate critical discourse, building community outside of either institution or market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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