MODELO PARA ARMAR:
REHEARSING THE CITY
Amapola Prada
VideoNovember 3 - December 3, 2011
Modelo para Armar is the effect of the Amapola Prada’s ongoing study of the apparent tensions of collectively engaged individuals as well as the expression of these tensions through pulsiones or psychic impulses. This work has unfolded through the careful observation of daily life and is augmented by the artist’s personal sensorial experience.
The exhibition features a series of video-recorded actions realized in New York City and Lima, Peru that demonstrate notions of the city-as-hub, internal migration, and everyday aggression.
The works present archetypal and imaginary situations as subjective interpretations of the realities of city life. The subjects of these situations, including the artist herself, are latent bodies who are activated by a variety of impulses. Participants perform actions in which they confront their circumstances, exteriorizing internal emotional states. Their cumulative individual energies hint at becoming collective.
Special Event
Thursday, November 19 at 7 pm
La Explosión (The Explosion)
Performance made in collaboration with the artist MPA
About the Artist
Amapola Prada is an artist from Lima, Peru, currently living in New York as a Franklin Furnace Fund Fellow. Her performance works have been presented by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics; the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico; and the II Bienal Internacional de Performance in Santiago de Chile, Chile. Her video work has been shown at the 10th Open International Performance Art Festival in Beijing, China; the 11th Festival Internacional de Video/Arte/Electrónica VAE11 in Lima, Perú; and the III Festival Internacional de Videoperformance EJECT in D.F, México. Prada received a BA in Social Psychology from Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú.