Argelia Bravo and Flix. I give you my word

Venezuela participates in the 56th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.
Argelia Bravo and Flix are the artists who will represent the country in this important world event.
In recent years, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is currently the epicenter of intense debate and controversy.
Everything revolves around the proposal of socialist construction undertaken by the land of Simon Bolivar. The debate has gone beyond the country's borders and has permeated other companies. One of the features of the dynamics of social change, is that there is no space that is not plagued by this desire for transformation, then the dialogue and the ongoing construction of new ideas and viewpoints.
With the title "I give you my word" Venezuela, once again, is at the Venice Biennale.
The exhibition proposal is made by the work of visual artist Argelia Bravo and the street artist known as Flix.
The proposal by Oscar Sotillo, who set the reference of the word as a starting point to ensure that the two visual creators can communicate with them and the public who visit the Venezuela Pavilion in Venice.
In curatorial text, Sotillo states that "Behind every artistic creation exists a substrate textual, that in some proposals becomes the protagonist while in other serves as a conceptual framework. The word and its image are a source of permanent reflection and infinite source from which the creators visual draw to build new readings, images, stories, prayers, poems and, again, form and image. This shows the people of Venezuela expressed his words of solidarity and commitment to building a more just world, in which the sense of dignity, independence, respect for Mother Earth and the struggle for justice and beauty, constitute the highest sense of human existence. "The work of Argelia Bravo entitled" Si nos el matter bledo !!! "(Yes, there cares !!!) and, starting from the video as a technical basis, working on the 'aesthetics of political activism, both feminism, ecology, food sovereignty or independence.
But this work is not only an aesthetic reflection, but basically collects political activism of Bravo that his actions artists who shoots without beating about the bush, against injustice, social inequality and the deceptions of the speech. The artist makes use of the spoken word and builds with political slogans, children's songs and word games, a universe in which, in addition to the political position engaged, live humor and the questioning of stereotypes and mechanisms of domination. On the same basis reflexive, the street artist known by the pseudonym of Flix addresses the issue from a perspective of poetry. A tangle of lines that evoke the tissues of the original peoples of Venezuela invades the architectural spaces. The space, in the center, is altered by a set of solid elements, which break the chromatism of floors and walls, to raise it to the proportionate size of the human and make it even more obvious. If you turn around, you can interact and play hide and seek with poetry running through the walls.
Around the area play it develops typographically a poem by the famous poet Venezuelan Gustavo Pereira. The work of Flix is ​​called Ma-jokaraisa, which in the language of iWarao, inhabitants of the Orinoco Delta, it means my other heart, expression used by this population to say friend. The participation of Venezuela in this 56th Venice Biennale is the product of a collaboration between the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Ministry of People's Power for Culture through the Institute of Arts of the Image and Space and the embassy of the Venezuela in Italy. The group's production was directed by Morella Jurado, Oscar Sotillo and Reynaldo Landaeta. Venezuela participates in the Venice Biennale since 1954, in an architectural space of his property made by the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa.

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