Upstairs Gallery: EMBAJADA presents Futuro Modular: Curated by Christopher Rivera
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EMBAJADA presents
Futuro Modular
curated by Christopher Rivera
ASMA, Rebecca Adorno, Nobutaka Aozaki, Básica TV, Antoine Carbonne, Guanina Cotto, Dalton Gata, Jorge González, Alejandro Lafontant, Adriana Martinez, Natalia Martínez, Mariana Murcia, Las Nietas de Nonó, Kenny Rivero, Chemi Rosado-Seijo, Claudia Peña Salinas, Manuel Mendoza Sánchez, Curtis Talwst Santiago, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Jose Luis Vargas
November 10 — January 12, 2020
Opening Reception: Sunday, November 10, 6—8pm
Embajada presents Futuro Modular, a group exhibition curated by Christopher Rivera.
The portrayal of the future in western culture is in constant flux, an ongoing imaginary construction, assembled by memories or ideas of what that future could look like. The once technicolor optimism of the sixties and seventies which included visiting aliens, flying cars or a holiday to Mars gives way to a more cynical and imaginative vision of the future, rendered in muted tones of sepia or dark silver green. Ridley Scott’s 1982 dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner, set in what was imagined to be our present day, November 2019, featured flying cars, intelligent robots, a crumbling climate and an existential crisis. While this vision of the future still feels farfetched, we find ourselves inching closer to this imagined future. Video calls, 3D printing, and automatic cars are technologies current today that seemed impossible only fifteen years ago, meanwhile urgent climate changes threaten the earth’s survival. As Albert Einstein stated, “I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.”
Futuro Modular brings together a varied group of artists that help to create a fictional DIY experience and installation that ruminates on the idea of future. The exhibition uses the second floor of the gallery as an imaginary spaceship, a vehicle idea that inherently bears the marks of a progressive society. A spaceship’s contents, in this case the artworks, as well as the motives of its occupants, the artists, imagine an ambiguous and open-ended future, suspending absolute terms of salvation and destruction.
Text by Christopher Rivera
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Natalia Martinez, Somewhere Nowhere, 2019
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Basica TV, SPYDER, 2017
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Alejandro Lafontant, Untitled, 2019
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Alejandro Lafontant, Untitled, 2019
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Antoine Carbonne, my kind of dog, 2019
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Antoine Carbonne, soft speed, 2019
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Antoine Carbonne, untitled (angry), 2019
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Gabriella Torres Ferrer, Marketvalue 005 (Energy drink), 2019
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Gabriella Torres Ferrer, Co2 Marketvalue 003 (Green Cola), 2019
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Gabriella Torres Ferrer, BTC £, 2019
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Gabriella Torres Ferrer, Personal Data Mine 001 (Credit Card), 2018
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Gabriella Torres Ferrer, Isn't the World Just a Great Big Pyramid Scheme (Allow), 2019
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ASMA, filtro, 2019
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Dalton Gata, Untitled, 2019
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Guanina Cotto, Buenas Noticias en el 2093, 2019
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Kenny Rivero, Llevame Contigo (Let Me Find Out), 2019
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Jorge Gonzalez, Calendario Antillano (Antillean Calendar), 2016
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Las Nietas de Nono, la evolisyon machin, 2019
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Claudia Pena Salinas, UNAM, 2018
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Claudia Pena Salinas, Tlaloc, 2018
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Mariana Murcia, Save As, 2017
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Rebecca Adorno, The heat death of the universe, 2019
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Curtis Talwst Santiago, Elk and Zebra embrace while reaching simultaneous climax, 2017
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Chemi Rosado-Seijo, G Orwell (History on Wheels), 2019
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Nobutaka Aozaki, Lucky Competitive Cats, 2016/2019
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ASMA, the mirror itself, 2019
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Adriana Martinez, Soft Drink, 2019
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Manuel Mendoza Sánchez, In a Matter of Time, 2019
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Jose Luis Vargas, 3ra Parte de lo Entrenamiento, 2019
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Jose Luis Vargas, y ahora que hago con ella?, 2019