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Liliana Porter: Actualidades / Breaking News

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Liliana Porter creates surreal compositions that interrogate the boundaries between reality and representation. Her ongoing practice spans more than six decades and encompasses printmaking, photography, painting, installation, video, and theater. Porter consistently draws from an eccentric cast of toys, miniature figures--including the likenesses of Mickey Mouse, Elvis Presley, Che Guevara, and Jesus Christ--and other objects to create theatrical vignettes that invite existential meditations on the human experience.

Liliana Porter: Actualidades / Breaking News will feature a video and a small selection of photographs by the artist that explore the news as a stage in which politics, spectacle, and everyday life collide. The video uses the structure of the newspaper through transitional headings, such as "Arts and Leisure," "Fashion and Style," and "World News," and a dramatic score to string together "situations" that are humorous, tragic, or even banal. The disparate vignettes, staged in otherwise nondescript settings, break with ideas of linear time and narrative, offering disjoined scenarios that resonate with the dramas and absurdities of human life across history and geography.

This exhibition--the artist's first solo presentation at a museum on the West Coast--provides a focused examination of Porter's expansive conceptual practice, highlighting her skilled evocation of poignant philosophical and political questions through otherwise simple gestures and miniature objects.

Image Credit: Liliana Porter, Actualidades / Breaking News, 2016. Digital video with sound, 22 min. 46 sec. Museum purchase with funds provided by Tad Freese and Brook Hartzell in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Hosfelt Gallery, 2022.01. Courtesy of the artist and Hosfelt Gallery. © Liliana Porter.
Liliana Porter creates surreal compositions that interrogate the boundaries between reality and representation. Her ongoing practice spans more than six decades and encompasses printmaking, photography, painting, installation, video, and theater. Porter consistently draws from an eccentric cast of toys, miniature figures--including the likenesses of Mickey Mouse, Elvis Presley, Che Guevara, and Jesus Christ--and other objects to create theatrical vignettes that invite existential meditations on the human experience.

Liliana Porter: Actualidades / Breaking News will feature a video and a small selection of photographs by the artist that explore the news as a stage in which politics, spectacle, and everyday life collide. The video uses the structure of the newspaper through transitional headings, such as "Arts and Leisure," "Fashion and Style," and "World News," and a dramatic score to string together "situations" that are humorous, tragic, or even banal. The disparate vignettes, staged in otherwise nondescript settings, break with ideas of linear time and narrative, offering disjoined scenarios that resonate with the dramas and absurdities of human life across history and geography.

This exhibition--the artist's first solo presentation at a museum on the West Coast--provides a focused examination of Porter's expansive conceptual practice, highlighting her skilled evocation of poignant philosophical and political questions through otherwise simple gestures and miniature objects.

Image Credit: Liliana Porter, Actualidades / Breaking News, 2016. Digital video with sound, 22 min. 46 sec. Museum purchase with funds provided by Tad Freese and Brook Hartzell in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Hosfelt Gallery, 2022.01. Courtesy of the artist and Hosfelt Gallery. © Liliana Porter.
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