Les voix des fleuves Crossing the water
Iván Argote – The Other, Me & the Others, 2023
2024
Steel, wood, suspension, mixed media
Venue
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Metropolitan area
Born in 1983 in Bogota, Colombia
Lives and works in Paris, France
Artist and film-maker Iván Argote presents a critical and often humorous take on dominant historical narratives, while at the same time subverting them. Through large-scale installations, projects on monuments and video performances, he explores new symbolic uses for public space and the ways it is used officially. Through strategies based on affect and tenderness, his art re-evaluates the writing of history, politics and economics in the construction of our collective and individual relationships to systems of power and belief.
The Other, Me & the Others is an interactive, participatory installation in the form of a swing with a platform that tilts to one side or the other, depending on the number and the movements of the visitors on the gangway. As it tilts from one side to the other, the work interrogates interpersonal relationships, seeking a balance between the people on it and spatially symbolising the connections between individuals. It invites us to consider public space as a playground open to all, a place of encounters and even of power.
Courtesy of the artist, Perrotin, Albarrán Bourdais & Vermelho
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