Lorenzo Sandoval

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Artista, cineasta y curador. Su práctica crea espacios de encuentro a través de obras, películas y piezas arquitectónicas. Formó parte de Canine Wisdom for the Barking Dog, sobre el legado de Halim el-Dabh, en Dak’Art 2018, y del Miracle Workers Collective, que representó a Finlandia en la Bienal de Venecia de 2019. Junto con Tono Vizcaíno produjo Industria para el IVAM en 2021. En 2018 inició Aquel Verano del 22, sobre las conexiones entre la minería en La Unión, la construcción en La Manga y la agroindustria en el Mar Menor. Actualmente trabaja en Shadow Writing (Water Patterning) para la Beca de Artes Plásticas de la Fundación Botín. Desde 2015 dirige la escultura habitable e institución ficticia The Institute for Endotic Research.

The Wall is a Virus

I am writing this in the moment when the COVID-19 crisis is hitting hard in Germany. In Peru, Morocco, Denmark, Spain, Italy and many other places, the almost total lockdown of society has already taken place. A few days ago, France declared war against the virus. Most of the borders are closed for people considered migrants: if you are not from the country, you cannot go (back) in. Last year, Tlaxcala3 in Mexico and TIER in Berlin (...)

23/03/2020

documenta 14 (Athens): A Crowd Facing the Crowd

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is an ausstellungsmacher (an exhibition maker). He comes from a background in biotechnology. Together with Solvej Helweg Ovesen, he is running the exhibition programme of Berlin’s Galerie Wedding. Ndikung is also is the founder and the artistic director of Savvy Contemporary, a space founded in 2009 in Berlin that focuses on the complex interactions between non-Western and Western cultures. Savvy has become one of the most important radiation points of the city. It “radiates” in a two-fold sense; in the first instance, it condenses the formations that emerge when highly relevant academic voices are met with a large spectre of cultural practices—ranging (...)

08/08/2017