I/O
2018
Espacio Monitor. Los Galpones Art Center, Caracas, Venezuela.
Exhibition venue
Selected artwork
Photos by Julio Osorio
This exhibition brings together the recent creative work of Jesús Moreno- Granados, a young Venezuelan artist (Caracas, 1981) who lives and works in Bogota. Composed of a set of assemblies, sculptures and a sound installation, these proposals have been approached from the contrasts of the material and the immaterial, and is why both the texts, the sounds, the void, the structures and images are linked by the ideas of translation, edge and territory.
I/O here is the acronym understood in the meaning of “On / Off”. This reference to everyday electronic and virtual interfaces places a reading that proposes the tension between poles: first with regard to the relations of the subject and being in the face of artifice, then in what concerns centrally the sculptor's craft, (in)materiality and its implications. Moreno-Granados understands matter, time and space as variables where relies a shared understanding of the universe. For him these questions are approximations phenomenological structures that configure and try to understand and explain the experience of the human being, his life and his environment.
In these works the artist proposes spatial situations that account for the relationships woven between subject, environment and context, seeking to open the possibility for other looks and hearings, optics and hearings that misrepresent, doubt and question that shared understanding that is usually understood as existence. As a surrounding installation, the grouping of these pieces three-dimensional images hints at a utopian universe, a non-existent galaxy that spatially and aesthetically leads the viewer to gravitate towards a atmosphere that moves him out of his daily habitat, that displaces, overflows and leads beyond its time, to a place hitherto unknown.
Curatorial text of Miguel Miguel García for the exhibition at Espacio Monitor, 2018.