Carmen Alicia Di Pasquale Retrofuturistisch raam in een villa nabij Caracas. Archivo pseudomimético, acrylic on linen, 36,5×35 cm, 2023. – Raam in een villa bij Caracas in Venezuela, Fotocollectie Van de Poll, National Archief NL. En 1994 el filósofo argelino-francés Jacques Derrida, dicta una conferencia que ha pasado a ser referencia para los artistas contemporáneos dedicados …
Author Archives: Hugo Palmar
VRIJHEID VAN DE GAST
Hugo Palmar’s Transits Carmen Alicia Di Pasquale “… a man in exile is always a man lurking, the way he watches, when endowed with the imagination of a writer and a thinker, gives him the capability to ‘anticipate so many things’ beyond the moment he is living in.” George Didi-Huberman “The real is what flees.” …
Cancelled Territory
What are the body’s material and discursive limits? What is the territory of “a genitality” that finds its own way and evolves without prejudices into an expanded sexuality, a sexuality filled with signifying human practices? Whoever has suffered numberless exclusions and “eliminations” form the symbolic and collective universe, whoever has been sieged and isolated from …
From that side of the Caribbean…
In the dreaming man’s dream, the dreamed one awoke.J. L. Borges For a number of years now we have heard talk quite vehemently about the revolutionary chapters the reorganization of power games in the virtual territories of the Internet era and the social media have opened up for millions of new protagonisms. Nevertheless, in regard …
Hugo Palmar: The Art of Exorcizing Futures
By: Víctor Fuenmayor Ruíz What Hugo Palmar says in I am reveals several readings there, where the “I”, the first person’s pronoun, finds –with the photographic display of the artist’s own naked body–a way of inhabiting, purely and autobiographically, installations, drawings and projections. Symbolic reconstruction, imaginary reflection of what has been experienced silently in pain, …
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[I am]
By: Susana Quintero Borowiak. Hugo Palmar is a young contemporary artist whose work, in regard to the medium, ranges from bidimensional representations to installations, and, in regard to his discourse, from the intimate realm to the collective expression. This versatility comes from his conviction that every action in the creative process is a constitutive and …