entangle[e]elements

 

entangle[e]elements

Between science and art, the body can be relocated as a support, producing images that migrate from one medium to another. Entangl[e]lements is an installation of intertwined slides, videos, polaroids, photos and performances; exploring the shifts between digital and analog formats. There is a cycle with the deployment of projections, in which the body is used as a connector for patterns that are reflected in static and moving images.

MAx Provenzano presents his most recent individual project at galerie21 located in Hamburg, Germany. The exhibition is an installation made up of recurring elements in the artist’s work, such as found objects, postcards, polaroids, photographs, slides, and videos. Through his actions, the artist produces a framework in which his body is a connecting element in the process of migration from one medium to another. entangl[e]lements is a play on words that combines entangled and elements, which are assumed to be elements of entanglement, having as a reference to quantum entanglement in which it is stated that a set of “entangled particles’’ can not be defined as individual particles with defined states, but as a system with a single wave function for the entire system. This results in the existence of propagations between these systems despite their distances.

There is a clear autobiographical referentiality of the artist, emphasizing his journey through different latitudes, establishing connection points between different layers of meaning assumed as a system. The installation proposes a transit through a diversity of media ranging from digital to analog. Works such as ProvenSanto and Inventario de Máscaras de Lucha in Polaroids show the appropriation of elements of Mexican culture and their resonance in the construction of identity fictions, among the projections on the body are Kueka Stationnaire, El Golfo Triste, Wiendto, La Quema and Alexander in which there is an interposition of the body as a support; and metaphors based on geopolitics and the historical context are formulated. A selection of slides made with different materials and others found in second-hand sales in Lisbon markets, which outlines an approach to his archive (2017) that can be seen in the room through viewers, projectors​ or in projection- polaroids over his body. Ornament andMAximiliano David are examples of photographic pieces in which the mise-en-scène is used as an activating mechanism to describe their infiltration processes in social networks and the circulation of images of his body through different media.

The exhibition will be inaugurated with the live performance YoPAd-Verschränkunst on Friday, May 5 at 7:00 p.m. (CEST) at galerie 21 at Vowerkstr 21 20357, under the coordination of Elena Pastor.

website: https://entanglelements.wordpress.com