{"uid":"ips6qpSmpu9sZSWw","type":"curator","tags":[],"group":"yes","group_name":"AXIS Curatorial","project_title":"Groundwork","summary":"Groundwork is a two-project exhibition where the razing of the earth is examined as a cycle\nof social and political collapse and regeneration. Rendering powerful entanglements\nbetween land, labour and extractivist practices endemic in South America and the Middle\nEast, the exhibition poses the natural landscape as a foundation which is shaped and\nmisshaped by history.\nShadi Haroumi\u2019s I Dream the Mountain is Still Whole (2017) is a video installation filmed in a\nquarry in the mountains of Kurdistan. The work weaves a story of political dissidence\ninterwoven with the realities of hard labor and the extractive practices that are slowly\nharvesting, and thereby erasing, a force as mighty as a mountain. The artist longs for the\ntime when the mountain was still whole, drawing a metaphor between the erasure of this\nnatural monument and the erasure of histories it contains.\nYano-a (2005) is a video installation by Brazilian artists Claudia Andujar, Leandro Lima and\nGisela Motta that examines extractivist industries, environmental devastation, and the\nresulting inequities endured by Amazonian indigenous communities in the region. Evoking\nthe glare of fire, this installation projects an iconic photograph of a burning Yanomami\nmaloca (hut), taken by Andujar in 1976, overlaid in an activation by Lima and Motta with a\nred filter, water and an animation of flames.\n\nVIDEOS:\n\nI Dream the Mountain is Still Whole:\nhttps:\/\/vimeo.com\/209723632\/72fc129a35\n\nYANO-A:\nhttps:\/\/vimeo.com\/97986357","space":"There is flexibility regarding the exhibition space given the variable dimensions of these two\ninstallations. We would prefer an exhibition space that has restricted exposure to ambient\nlighting.","artists_proposal":"Shadi Harouni, Iranian-American, https:\/\/www.tizianadicaro.it\/artists\/shadi-harouni.html\n\nGisela Motta, Brazilian, https:\/\/www.aagua.net\/aagua\n\nLeandro Lima, Brazilian, https:\/\/www.aagua.net\/aagua\n\nClaudia Andujar, Swiss-Brazilian, no website","members":[{"names":"Noor","surname":"Al\u00e9","email":"axiscuratorial@gmail.com","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"HB042263","address":"133 Dartmouth Drive, London, ON, N5V 4N1, Canada","city":"London (ontario)","nacionality":"Canadiense","country_id":"41","birthdate":"1990-08-01T03:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1990-08-01T03:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+1 519-401-8237","web":null}],"lang":"es","status":"ok","video_link_password":null,"video_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/209723632\/72fc129a35","audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"fileCount":1,"names":"Claudia","surname":"Mattos","email":"axiscuratorial@gmail.com","dni_type":"PASAPORTE","dni":"498146855","address":"5249 NW 7th Street, Apt. 213, Miami, FL 33126, United States","city":"Miami","nacionality":"Estados Unidos","country_id":"236","birthdate":"1989-04-11T03:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1989-04-11T03:00:00.000Z","telephone":"+1 786-417-2199","web":null}