May 27, 2017 – CAPC Contemporary Art Museum Bordeaux – Naufus Ramrez-Figueroa: Linnaeus in Tenebris / Oscar … – E-Flux

Naufus Ramrez-Figueroa Linnaeus in Tenebris May 18September 24, 2017

Oscar Murillo Estructuras resonantes May 18August 27, 2017

CAPC Contemporary Art Museum Bordeaux 7, rue Ferrre 33000 Bordeaux France

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This spring, CAPC is proud to present in Bordeaux, Naufus Ramrez-Figueroa's first solo show in France with a large-scale site-specific installation for the Nave of the museum, and Oscar Murillo's Estructuras resonantes, the second installment of the exhibition cycle The Economy of Living Things, curated by Osei Bonsu for the tenth anniversary edition of the Satellite Programme.

Naufus Rmirez-Figueroa: Linnaeus in Tenebris For his first solo show in France, Naufus Ramrez-Figueroa (born in Guatemala City, lives and works in Berlin) taps into science fiction and biotechnology to address a recurrent subject in his sculptures and performances, namely, the suffering of the land and of the people who farm it.

Linnus in Tenebris, a site-specific installation and performance* in the Nave of CAPC, is set in the historic context of the eighteenth century, an era that still dominates Bordeauxs architectural landscape. The work focuses on an emblematic figure of rationalism, Carl von Linn (170778), the Swedish botanist who created the nomenclature for the classification of most living species known in his time. More broadly, Ramrez-Figueroa examines the taxonomical practices that were developed during the scientific (notably botanical) expeditions undertaken in the wake of western colonization at the time of the Enlightenment. By linking their inherent conceptual bias to the logic of ethnic hierarchization underpinning the division of labor and the spread of industrialization specifically in the realm of agriculture in Central America, and Guatemala in particular, under the impulse of multinational companies employing migrant laborers he underlines their alienating potential.

At CAPC, the artist thrusts visitors into the cold and bleak atmosphere of a breeding farm where strange hybrid creatures are grown on an industrial scale. The half-human, half-plant-like sculptures populating the Nave bunches of bananas with protruding arms and legs, a cocoa-tree-hangman, Monstera deliciosa or other species of suspiciously lush plants, an androgynous-yucca-plant and a plant-pod-midget are simultaneously fascinating and puzzling. Made of polystyrene covered in resin, they affirm their artificiality and question the moral foundations of enlightened culture by exposing the crimes committed in the shadow of Linnaeus.

*Linnus in Tenebris (text: Wingston Gonzlez) is part of a series of performances by Naufus Ramrez-Figueroa commissioned and produced by Corpus, European network for performance practice. Corpus is Bulegoa z/b (Bilbao), CAC (Vilnius), KW (Berlin), If I Cant Dance (Amsterdam), Playground (STUK & M, Louvain) and Tate Modern (London). Corpus is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

Curator: Alice Motard This exhibition receives the exceptional support of our honorary patron, Chteau Haut-Bailly

Oscar Murillo: Estructuras resonantes Oscar Murillo works across a variety of media, combining painting, sculpture and video to form immersive installations composed of a variety of materials. As opposed to working within a specific spatial environment, his work evolves from a far ranging practice that includes public interventions, community-based collaborations and performance.

Filmed in Marrakech, Morocco, Untitled (2017), shows North African Bedouin Arabs absorbed in the improvisation of sounds, music and dancing. The work captures the immediate impact of live music as a form of civic engagement transcending cultural boundaries.Aesthetic absorption and rupture operate a mode of connection in which the spectatoris alsocaught. This video forms part of an interconnected display of works entitled Estructuras resonantes, a meditation on the artists family background and history.

The Economy of Living Things is an exhibition cycle concerned with the constant movement of bodies, plants, animals, artefacts and other cultural products across real and imagined borders. Moving beyond the notion of mapping history, new commissions of Ali Cherri, Oscar Murillo, Steffani Jemison and Jumana Manna will travel through unknown and familiar spaces to render visible the undocumented journeys undertaken by living things.

Curator: Osei Bonsu The Satellite programme is co-produced by Jeu de Paume, Paris, FNAGP and CAPC muse dart contemporain de Bordeaux. Exhibition organized as part of The Year France-Colombia 2017.

Also on view BEAU GESTE PRESS Curator: Alice Motard Until May 28, 2017

[sic] works from the CAPC Collection Curator: Jos Luis Blondet Permanent exhibition

Upcoming 4.543 billion. The matter of matter Curated by Latitudes June 29, 2017January 7, 2018 As part of the cultural season Paysages Bordeaux 2017

Our Visual Identities. Bordeaux-Paris, Paris-Bordeaux Curator: Martine Pan June 29September 24, 2017 As part of 40 ans-40 lieux, Centre Pompidou 40th anniversary programme

Beatriz Gonzlez Curator: Mara Ins Rodrguez Retrospective exhibition organized by CAPC muse d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofa, Madrid and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. November 23, 2017February 25, 2018 Exhibition organized as part of The Year France-Colombia 2017.

The CAPC muse dart contemporain is a museum of the City of Bordeaux.

Museum patrons Honorary patron:Chteau Haut-Bailly Founding patron: Les Amis du CAPC Leading patrons: Fondation Daniel & Nina Carasso, Lacoste Traiteur Patrons: SUEZ, Mercure Bordeaux Cit Mondiale, Chteau Chasse-Spleen, SLTE, Chteau Le Bonnat, Le Petit Commerce

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