Lecture by Ramiro Chaves

Interludes 19

Lecture
Ramiro Chaves
Octubre 15, 2015

 

The Argentinian artist Ramiro Chaves talks about his new body of work on video “De Como Ser Amabilis”, 2015. A project filmed in Parque las Americas in Mérida, México that revolves around identity, memory and nationalism based on the recurring appearance of the work of Manuel Amabilis Domínguez, architect from Yucatán, México and main exponent of the Art Decó neoindigenism style. This video portrays, through a non-linear narrative, the use of certain public spaces. The sockets are connected by the thread of the appearance of the X either as a graphic symbol, as part of architecture or three-dimensional object. X as central and as defining a particular place also permeates other works of Chaves as part of the XXXXXXXXXX project.
 

ABOUT UNDISCIPLINED INTERLUDES: This cycle explores the relationships that spawn in the intersection of disciplines and collaborative work. Through the work of invited authors in Theater, Cinema, Literature and Visual Arts, a series of events around space appropriation are proposed. The encounters on this cycle are interventions in themselves which allow the artists to test and expand their practice from analytic, thoughtful and creative methods similar to the processes of architectural projection.