The Swell Gallery presents RELATIONAL ARCHIVES, a group show featuring work by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Paula Morales, Juan Pablo Pacheco, and Aaron Wilder.
RELATIONAL ARCHIVES is an exhibition that explores the different ways of constructing, interpreting, and re-interpreting an archive in an era of intangibility where the physicality of documents and images is no longer a priority. How can we understand our relationship to the past when traditional archives start losing their authority, and the boundaries between the simulated and the real become increasingly blurred? How do we understand the impulse to record in a time where space and time are shattered through the digital and its relationship to global environmental, social, and political crises? Our common understanding of the archive is interpretative, meaning that it is based upon our own relation to the objects and information displayed. RELATIONAL ARCHIVES plays with fiction, reenactment, and imaginative intervention to engage with the meaning of the images/objects, not necessarily with the factuality of the events that these are supposed to speak to. Each artist in the show will be accessing, interpreting, and curating the archive of a different artist in the show. Through this collaborative exercise, we seek to open a dialogue about limitations of partiality and the subjectivity of authorship.
The Swell Gallery is located on the second floor of SFAI's Graduate Center at 2565 3rd street. Enter from ground level on 22nd street and the gallery is the first door on the right after arriving at the second floor from the stairwell.
Check out the artists online:
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: http://zaliartandphotography.com
Paula Morales: http://www.paula-morales.com
Juan Pablo Pacheco: http://www.juanpablopacheco.com
Aaron Wilder: http://aaronwilder.com
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RELATIONAL ARCHIVES is an exhibition that explores the different ways of constructing, interpreting, and re-interpreting an archive in an era of intangibility where the physicality of documents and images is no longer a priority. How can we understand our relationship to the past when traditional archives start losing their authority, and the boundaries between the simulated and the real become increasingly blurred? How do we understand the impulse to record in a time where space and time are shattered through the digital and its relationship to global environmental, social, and political crises? Our common understanding of the archive is interpretative, meaning that it is based upon our own relation to the objects and information displayed. RELATIONAL ARCHIVES plays with fiction, reenactment, and imaginative intervention to engage with the meaning of the images/objects, not necessarily with the factuality of the events that these are supposed to speak to. Each artist in the show will be accessing, interpreting, and curating the archive of a different artist in the show. Through this collaborative exercise, we seek to open a dialogue about limitations of partiality and the subjectivity of authorship.
The Swell Gallery is located on the second floor of SFAI's Graduate Center at 2565 3rd street. Enter from ground level on 22nd street and the gallery is the first door on the right after arriving at the second floor from the stairwell.
Check out the artists online:
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: http://zaliartandphotography.com
Paula Morales: http://www.paula-morales.com
Juan Pablo Pacheco: http://www.juanpablopacheco.com
Aaron Wilder: http://aaronwilder.com
The Swell Gallery presents RELATIONAL ARCHIVES, a group show featuring work by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Paula Morales, Juan Pablo Pacheco, and Aaron Wilder.
RELATIONAL ARCHIVES is an exhibition that explores the different ways of constructing, interpreting, and re-interpreting an archive in an era of intangibility where the physicality of documents and images is no longer a priority. How can we understand our relationship to the past when traditional archives start losing their authority, and the boundaries between the simulated and the real become increasingly blurred? How do we understand the impulse to record in a time where space and time are shattered through the digital and its relationship to global environmental, social, and political crises? Our common understanding of the archive is interpretative, meaning that it is based upon our own relation to the objects and information displayed. RELATIONAL ARCHIVES plays with fiction, reenactment, and imaginative intervention to engage with the meaning of the images/objects, not necessarily with the factuality of the events that these are supposed to speak to. Each artist in the show will be accessing, interpreting, and curating the archive of a different artist in the show. Through this collaborative exercise, we seek to open a dialogue about limitations of partiality and the subjectivity of authorship.
The Swell Gallery is located on the second floor of SFAI's Graduate Center at 2565 3rd street. Enter from ground level on 22nd street and the gallery is the first door on the right after arriving at the second floor from the stairwell.
Check out the artists online:
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: http://zaliartandphotography.com
Paula Morales: http://www.paula-morales.com
Juan Pablo Pacheco: http://www.juanpablopacheco.com
Aaron Wilder: http://aaronwilder.com
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RELATIONAL ARCHIVES is an exhibition that explores the different ways of constructing, interpreting, and re-interpreting an archive in an era of intangibility where the physicality of documents and images is no longer a priority. How can we understand our relationship to the past when traditional archives start losing their authority, and the boundaries between the simulated and the real become increasingly blurred? How do we understand the impulse to record in a time where space and time are shattered through the digital and its relationship to global environmental, social, and political crises? Our common understanding of the archive is interpretative, meaning that it is based upon our own relation to the objects and information displayed. RELATIONAL ARCHIVES plays with fiction, reenactment, and imaginative intervention to engage with the meaning of the images/objects, not necessarily with the factuality of the events that these are supposed to speak to. Each artist in the show will be accessing, interpreting, and curating the archive of a different artist in the show. Through this collaborative exercise, we seek to open a dialogue about limitations of partiality and the subjectivity of authorship.
The Swell Gallery is located on the second floor of SFAI's Graduate Center at 2565 3rd street. Enter from ground level on 22nd street and the gallery is the first door on the right after arriving at the second floor from the stairwell.
Check out the artists online:
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto: http://zaliartandphotography.com
Paula Morales: http://www.paula-morales.com
Juan Pablo Pacheco: http://www.juanpablopacheco.com
Aaron Wilder: http://aaronwilder.com
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