Exposição - Liliana Porter, Actualidades / Breaking News, San José Museum of Art, until Feb 25th 2024
Memorabilia, 2016
Liliana Porter creates surreal compositions that interrogate the boundaries between reality and representation. Her ongoing practice spans more than six decades and encompasses printmaking, photography, painting, installation, video, and theater. Porter consistently draws from an eccentric cast of toys, miniature figures—including the likenesses of Mickey Mouse, Elvis Presley, Che Guevara, and Jesus Christ—and other objects to create theatrical vignettes that invite existential meditations on the human experience.
Liliana Porter: Actualidades / Breaking News will feature a video and a small selection of photographs by the artist that explore the news as a stage in which politics, spectacle, and everyday life collide. The video uses the structure of the newspaper through transitional headings, such as “Arts and Leisure,” “Fashion and Style,” and “World News,” and a dramatic score to string together “situations” that are humorous, tragic, or even banal. The disparate vignettes, staged in otherwise nondescript settings, break with ideas of linear time and narrative, offering disjoined scenarios that resonate with the dramas and absurdities of human life across history and geography.