Hier in den Wäldern
Patricia Esquivias
Lecture on 07.07.2011 from 7 pm

Hermes und der Pfau is pleased to announce the presentation “Hier in den Wäldern” by the Spanish artist Patricia Esquivias (*1979) on 7 July 2011 at 7 p.m. Patricia Esquivias currently holds a scholarship at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Germany and has established herself in the last few years with works for which she constructed unconventional correlations of meaning lying behind the surfaces of everyday life based on historical facts, personal observations and accidental occurrences. The speculative stories she tells as an improvised monologue in front of her computer screen in her videos thus set up an aetiological-causal link between for instance events of Spain’s history and the birth of Valencia’s Techno scene, Phillip ll and Julio Iglesias or the Galician architecture of Spain with the New-Galician architecture of Mexico.

Patricia Esquivias will use her presentation at Hermes und der Pfau to ask the audience questions about various local characteristics she noticed during her time in Stuttgart. These characteristics researched by her can be of architectural, topographical, historical or social nature. In this way, Esquivias looks at the presentation as a starting point for a new piece of work dependent on the individual knowledge of her audience.

Patricia Esquivias was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1979. She lives and works in Madrid, Spain and currently holds a scholarship at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany for 2010/2011. Her solo exhibitions comprise “Everything that is not a portion is speculation” at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, “Reads like the paper” at Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (both in 2009) as well as White Room at White Columns, New York (2008). Her works were also presented in, among others, the group exhibitions “The Mass Ornament” at the Gladstone Gallery, New York (2010), “The Generational: Younger Than Jesus” at the New Museum, New York and in “Report on Probability”, Kunsthalle Basel (both 2009), the 5th Berlin Biennale, Berlin (2008) and “Pensée Sauvage – On human freedom” at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2007). Patricia Esquivias is represented by Murray Guy Gallery in New York.

Prior to Patricia Esquivias’ presentation Hermes und der Pfau will be hosting a curator’s talk as part of the exhibition “Wie geht's dir, Stuttgart?” at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart on 7 July 2011, where Anne-Sofie Ruckhaberle, Philipp Ziegler and Adnan Yildiz will take a look at the programme of the project space during the last four years.

 

 

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