Exhibitions
Salón ACME 2024.
Guest curator, Open Call section, Salón ACME 2025, February 2024.
Curatorial Board: Benedicta Badía (Argentina), Darío Escobar (Guatemala), Pati Hertling (Alemania), Anais Lepage (Francia), Alex Romero (México) and Santi Villanueva (Argentina)
Artists: Napoleón Aguilera, Hernan Aguirre, Autumn Ahn, Henna Aho, Aldo Álvarez Tostado, Enrique Argote, Nicola Arthen, Avantgardo, Sofía Bonilla Otoya, Luis Bravo, Rodrigo Cacho, Derzu Campos, Daniela Chaparro, Colectivo Raíz, Adeline de Monseignat, Lucrezia de Fazio, Cinthia De Levie, Clara de Tezanos, Yumnia Duarte, Azul Ehrenberg & Victoria Martínez, Gonzalo Fernández, Danilo Filtrof, Santiago Gómez, Andrés Gómez Servín, Antoine Granier, Bruno Gruppalli, David Guarnizo, Eugenia H. Ávila, Reiko Hamano, Kim Hankyul, Alan Hernández, José Hernández Luna, I-T-Z-E-L, Fi Isidore, Ellande Jaureguiberry, Michelle Lee Johnson, Camila Lamarca, Carlos Adrián Lara Martínez, Samuel Lasso, Gabriel Lengeling, Catherine Anabella Lie, Martin Llavaneras, Alejandro Luperca Morales, Angel David Marcano, Otto Martin Moreno, Andy Medina, Omar Mendoza, Joshua Merchan Rodriguez, Theo Michael, Ileana Moreno, Roger Muñoz Rivas, Rodrigo Navarro, Andrea Nones Kobiakov, Jose Manuel Oviedo Cruz, Elisa Pinto, Aria McManus, Humberto Ramírez, Cosa Rapozo, Maria Rasheed, Gustavo Rodríguez Valtierra, Felipe Rezende, Miguel Rodríguez Sepúlveda, Milagros Rojas, Jorge Rosano Gamboa, Ann Schnake, Carmen Serratos Chavarría, Ernesto Solana, Edgar Solórzano, Andrea Sotelo, Lisa Sudhibhasilp, Issa Téllez, Evelyn Tovar Toro, Anaís Tudón, Cristina Umaña Duran, Urmeer & Venebon, Eduardo Vargas Rico, Jonathan Vásquez, Andres Vergara, Mariela Vita, waysatta, Marek Wolfryd, Stanislav Zábrodský.
Daniel
Otero Torres Tierradentro.
Solo show, Drawing Lab, Paris, March 13-June 17, 2021.
The title Tierradentro —“the inside earth” in English— comes from an archaeological site located in the north of the Andes Mountains in Cauca, Colombia. Protected for its elaborate subterranean tombs and monumental statues, it houses the remains of a vast but little known ancient pre-Columbian culture.
Daniel Otero Torres remodels pre-Columbian know-how and legends from across Latin American; creates connections with ancient cultures of the Mediterranean basin; finds inspiration in Hindu and Egyptian deities; and draws parallels with scientific discoveries, contemporary events, and his personal experience. Adopting the gaze of an anthropologist, a naturalist, a physicist, and a science fiction reader, Daniel Otero Torres creates a mythology that is hybrid and mixed made of rubbings and reconciliations.
His practice is thus that of fragmentation, collision and detail. Each drawing is the result of an ongoing collection of archive and media images as well as travel photos, which are included in variegated compositions. These are then spread out, enlarged or miniaturized, stripped of any context, and subsequently drawn on paper, stainless steel, or ceramic.
The exhibition takes various narrative paths : the forgotten women fighters during the conflicts of the XXth century, the psychotropic powers of the Brugmansia plant, the transformations of the Jaguar Man, the genetic variations at the origin of the species, or the stray dogs answering to multiple names. Navigating through these worlds, Daniel Otero Torres explores the ties between what is sacred and profane, between vernacular cultures and planetary thought, between personal recollections and collective memory.
"Tierradentro" generates a new system of relations between time and beings. It is a place that creates another story of crossroads and syncretism, challenging us to consider our connections with others via mythologies and political struggles, as well as personal and emotional lives. A location, a vessel, a feeling, and a planet, for Daniel Otero Torres, "Tierradentro" is all of these at the same time.
In tune with the world, a new selection from Fondation Louis Vuitton’s collection.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, April 11 - Agust 27, 2018. Assistant curator Contemporary art.
Artists: Giovanni Anselmo, Matthew Barney, Christian Boltanski, Mark Bradford, James Lee Byars, Maurizio Cattelan, Ian Cheng, Andrea Crespo, Trisha Donnelly, Dan Flavin, Cyprien Gaillard, Alberto Giacometti, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jacqueline Humphries, Pierre Huyghe, Yves Klein, Mark Leckey, Henri Matisse, François Morellet, Philippe Parreno, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Bunny Rogers, Wilhelm Sasnal, Shimabuku, Kiki Smith, Adrián Villar Rojas, Anicka Yi.
In Tune with the World unveils a new selection of artists from the collection, of several different mediums, bringing together modern and contemporary works, most of which have never before been exhibited in these spaces.
More than a simple hanging of works, it is intended to be an exhibition based on a specific theme. This reflects today’s questions about man’s place in the universe and the bonds that tie him to his surrounding environment and living world, highlighting the interconnections between humans, animals, plants, and even inanimate objects.
Being there, South Africa, a contemporary scene.
Fondation Louis Vuitton, April 26 - September 4, 2017. Assistant curator Contemporary art.
Artists: Jane Alexander, Jody Brand, Kudzanai Chiurai, David Goldblatt, Nicholas Hlobo, William Kentridge, David Koloane, Moshekwa Langa, Lawrence Lemaoana, Zanele Muholi, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Athi-Patra Ruga, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Sue Williamson.
Without aiming to present a thorough overview, Being there brings together the recent works of three generations of artists born or living in South Africa. Their work, witnesses of a country still marked by its history and complex current event, express the necessity to intervene in the present. A first generation brings together major leading figures: Jane Alexander, David Goldblatt, William Kentridge and David Koloane. The consciousness of a specific responsibility, born during apartheid and reformulated today, resonates with force against the contemporary stakes. A second generation of artists born in the 1970s emerged during a period of questioning and transformation, focuses on the exploration and affirmation of plural identities, with a new commitment to defend minorities - Zanele Muholi and Nicholas Hlobo – and the consistent claim of belonging to South African territory that the artists have reappropriated on their return from exile - Moshekwa Langa. A third generation, born after 1980, develops an individual or collective activism, still very aware and in touch with reality, as it emerges in the video installation by Sue Williamson (born in 1941). The work reveals the antagonistic view of two young South Africans now confronted with the stigma of apartheid. Revisiting history and questioning their society, young artists – Jody Brand, Kudzanai Chiurai, Lawrence Lemaoana, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Athi-Patra Ruga, Bogosi Sekhukhuni, Buhlebezwe Siwani and Kemang Wa Lehulere - participate in the conception of a contemporary South African identity.
Co-worker, Network as Artist
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris October 9, 2015 - January 31 , 2016.
Curatorial team : Angeline Scherf, Toke Lykkeberg, Jessica Castex, Anaïs Lepage.
89plus team: Simon Castets, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Julie Boukobza, Katherine Dionysius.
Mise en scène: DIS Magazine
Artists: Sarah Abu Abdallah & Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Aids-3D, Ed Atkins, Trisha Baga, Darja Bajagić, Douglas Coupland, DIS, David Douard, Cécile B.Evans, Valia Fetisov, GCC, Parker Ito, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Clémence de La Tour du Pin & Dorota Gaweda & Egle Kulbokaite, Shawn Maximo, Nøne Futbol Club, Aude Pariset & Juliette Bonneviot, Pin-Up, Bunny Rogers, Rachel Rose, Bogosi Sekhukhuni & Tabita Rezaire, Ryan Trecartin, Timur Si-Qin, Jasper Spicero.
With the world in the throes of the third industrial revolution, the use of the Internet and mobile telephone systems has triggered a new mode of communication hinging on an uninterrupted flow of information. While remaining independent, the user is connected to numerous networks –professional, technical, artistic, cultural – that recognise no geographic boundaries: a form of organisation symptomatic of what sociologist Barry Wellman calls "networked individualism".
"The Internet of Things" revolves around the idea that humans are no longer the sole thinking entities – that the things around them constitute an environment termed "Ambient Intelligence". Installations, videos, sculptures and paintings: the contributing artists explore a system of exchanges whose complexity outstrips the merely human scale. They investigate the way intelligence and consciousness can be extended to include machines, animals and other living organisms. In a society marked by data acceleration and the omnipresence of images, these artists work within a culture of the visible, in which the boundaries between the private and public spheres are blurred and intimacy becomes "extimacy". In devising the exhibition' scenography DIS, known for its lifestyle platform DIS Magazine, has drawn on collective work spaces, shopping malls, and airport transit areas. The upshot is an event – a network of artworks, interactive installations and performances – that situates the museum in a world of data streaming and circulation.
