Associação Cultural Videobrasil

The co-curator of Documenta11, Mark Nash selected the artwork featured in Isaac Julien’s show at Galeria Nara Roesler, due from December 1 to January 12 in São Paulo. The set of pieces elicits renewed contact with Isaac Julien’s output, also featured in Sesc Pompeia’s Isaac Julien: Geopoetics show, curated by Solange Farkas and spanning three decades of his output. In the Galeria Nara Roesler program, photographs establish a peculiar relationship with installation work – True North (2004), Fantôme Créole (2005) and One Thousand Waves (2010).

In the photographs, the strict manner in which the artist builds layers can be seen from a different perspective: the eloquence of space, always a key factor in Julien’s language, is even more upfront in this show. In a way, the exhibit radicalizes the narrative fragmentation experience that the artist often proposes. As noted by the curator, Julien operates with “mythical, constructed images” to engender questionings such as: “How to approach the experience of individuals and of artistic practice as being at once related to a given place and integrated to a global network? How to approach the agonizing worlds that present themselves to us – the shock between ideologies and perspectives?”.

Find more on the Galeria Nara Roesler website.

Also check out the website of the show produced by Videobrasil and Sesc.