Osmosis
Antoine Renard
Ralo Mayer
Joe Hamilton
James Howard
No energy is needed in the physical process of osmosis. A
solvent crosses the semi-permeable membrane and reaches the most concentrated
part without any effort. Since the process of osmosis in the field of ideas is
understood as the influence between different cultural areas, contamination
among images or translations connecting diverse branches of knowledge, we wish
to explore this effect through the works of a selection of contemporary
cultural producers.
Technologies and their tools
are supposed to be used to solve problems, achieve goals or improve a
pre-existing solution to a problem. But what happens when those technologies
are just improving unnecessary goals or covering superficial or fictional
necessities? New necessities and new needs are being created in order to keep
the wheel of consumption turning, and so the production of more and more items
is insured and the advances in technologies are catering for these fake needs
and forgetting sometimes the real necessities of our times. We aim to bring
this natural character to our project and establish a dialogue between the
works, choosing artworks that can easily interact with each other in a conceptual
and aesthetical way, questioning the social role of the “techniques” and how
they excite the contents that produce mutant bodies of knowledge and remixed
visual imagery.
Our criteria is based on the potential creation of new
narratives developed from the overwhelming amount of information that surrounds
us everyday and from the crossover of elements coming from different cultural
and geographical origins or spots, and our aim is to build a hybrid new
discourse, as a result that acts as an icon
of a new era of cultural and informational osmosis, and to erase the boundary
between the different worlds that are a part of the same one through the tool
of the natural interaction and exchange, the same way as a cell does.
curated by Lorenzo Sandoval and Gabriela Acha