DANIEL BARROCA
DANIEL BARROCA’s works are concerned with memory and its images, searching for contemporary interpretations of history’s fragmentary legacies such as photos, pictures, and sound and voice recordings. Barroca has a particular interest in materials that enable highly subjective views of a specific historical epoch or event, in the form of personal recordings by unknown individuals. On this basis, he develops his drawings, films and photo installations and creates perspectives that can be compared and contrasted with the ‘official’ version in the history books.
“Soldier Playing with Dead Lizard” is a video installation; its collages of images and sounds are based on private snapshots taken by Portuguese soldiers who fought in the colonial war in Guinea-Bissau during the 1960s and 70s. It is the artist’s intention to reflect the historical events only indirectly, which is an expression of Barroca’s subtle poetic-visual language; on the other hand, it is also a pointer to the actual political conditions in Portugal at the time, for under the junta it was impossible to speak openly and critically about the war in the colonies, although it was bleeding the country dry.
Daniel Barroca holds a João Hogan fellowship from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in the context of our International Studio Programme.
Daniel Barroca – Soldier Playing with Dead Lizard
15 – 31 August 2008, Studio 2
Opening: Thursday, 14 August 2008, from 7 pm
LIBIA CASTRO & ÓLAFUR ÓLAFSSON
LIBIA CASTRO & ÓLAFUR ÓLAFSSON work with a wide range of artistic media and examine themes relevant to the socio-political situation of public and urban space; their art is a matter of language, urban identity and the effects of globalisation on local communities. The projects are ‘nomadic’: numerous journeys, long periods staying on site and cooperation with local communities and activist groups are established components of Castro’s and Ólafsson’s artistic practice. Motivated by their own hybrid identity and experience as migrants, they not only transport their research from one place and context to the next, but intervene, so activating and highlighting social and political spheres.
In Studio 3, Castro & Ólafsson are showing selected works from the past five years as a representative insight into their artistic practice. Sculptures, photographs, video and sound works made in such contrasting places as Cuba, Spain, the Netherlands, Iceland, Turkey and Germany reflect their personal, poetic-realistic style of committed artistic work as well as the everyday life of a wide spectrum of people – together with its minor and major events, encounters and spaces.
Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson are participants in our International Studio Programme.
Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson – Recent Works
15 – 31 August 2008, Studio 3
Opening: Thursday, 14 August 2008, from 7 pm
Parallel to the exhibition openings on 14th August 2008, we would like to present a further round of Open Studios at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien.
Here, you are invited to take an informal stroll through the studios, discover new artistic projects, and chat to the international artists about their work.
The following artists will be opening their studios from 7 to ca. 10 p.m. on 14th August:
Jungju An (ROK), Daniel Barroca (P), Castro & Ólafsson (E/IS), Markus Degerman (S), Cynthia Girard (CAN), Anouk Kruithof (NL), Pia Lindman (FIN), An Te Liu (CAN), Ives Maes (B), Christian Niccoli (I), Christodoulos Panayiotou (CY), Sarah Ryan (AUS), Martin Skauen (N), Sophia Tabatadze (GE) and Ntando Xorile (curator, ZA).
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