This Location

Dubai | 07/07/2010 to 31/07/2010

We would like to invite you to This Location” features works by three artists posing new questions about art, its purpose and location. Having each moved from one culture and country to another, their works explore the modern nomadic existence of whole populations today, the cross fertilization of cultures and the very idea of a fixed ‘location’ where a particular action is happening.

Running from 7th July to 31st July 2010, “This Location” focuses on dislocation, migration, Diasporas and the location of culture.

Artists:
Ersilia Sarrecchia
Born 1974 in Latina, Italy and now living and working in Doha, Qatar, Ersilia has previously lived in places as varied as Madrid, Berlin, Moscow, Las Vegas, Barcelona and London.

Andres Bellini in a critical essay, paraphrases Italo Calvino in his American Lectures and says that “Sarrechia’s pictorial practice accomplices a shedding of weight and attempt to free painting and Nature ‘from the world’s opacity ‘, from an onerous and unseemly heaviness.”.

Gayatri Gamuz
Born 1966 in Alicante, Spain and now living in South India where she has spent most of her adult life and made her mark as contemporary artist.
Her artist name is itself a joining together of her adopted Indian name and her Spanish surname. When asked in an interview about her adopted homeland of the last two decades says “I feel one with the land in many respects… I don’t pretend to belong here or feel that India is mine. …… I am a long-time tourist in India, and also on the planet.”

“The specificities of location, its history, mythology and presentness, in which an artist finds herself positioned, are very important in understanding the works of an artist like Gayatri Gamuz,” says Johnny M.L, an art critic and curator from India.

Monica de Miranda
Born 1976 in Porto, Portugal, Monica currently divides her time between Lisbon and London, where she is studying for her doctorate.
With roots in Angola, an education in London and experience working in Brazil and India, Monica brings a multi-dimensional approach to her art. For her distances are measured by affection and she works from her own space, the familiar space, the place of her relations, everybody’s space, which is an infinity of lines connecting collective and personal spaces.

As Guy Brett puts it (Chemistry of London, September 2007) “Monica de Miranda herself epitomizes both the complexity of cultural traces which make up identity and a diverse and flexible art practice.”

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