From February 1 to March 31, 2022

Sala Abierta is an intangible space that is part of the MAZ galleries.

A collaboration between AYER and the Museo de Arte de Zapopan

In Sala Abierta, an extension of Desmontajes Audiovisuales is presented for the first time—an exhibition currently on view at AYER that brings together a series of works questioning and challenging the conventional logic of audiovisual recording and playback technologies. Through various strategies, the artists explore, expand, or subvert the possibilities of the moving image.

Sanaz Sohrabi

Notes on Seeing Double, 2018
HD Video
11:10 min

Sala Abierta is an intangible space that is part of the MAZ galleries.

What is the anatomy of a revolution? Is it the mass of bodies with a collective desire? Notes on Seeing Double takes the Farsi rhetorical figure temsaal as a starting point to address this question. By juxtaposing a documentary photograph taken in February 1979 in Tehran and a Rembrandt painting depicting the famous Amsterdam anatomical theater in 1632, Notes on Seeing Double analyzes the conditions of visibility between different systems of power/knowledge production. The work observes the threshold between gaze and memory; it is a passage into the unfolding relationship between preexisting images, language, and memory, unraveling the marginal histories and affective records embedded in all images.

Sanaz Sohrabi (b.1988, Tehran)
Sohrabi is a researcher, artist, and filmmaker, currently a PhD candidate at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture at Concordia University, Montreal, with funding from Fonds de Recherche du Québec Société et Culture. Her doctoral research project constructs an unusual geopolitical timeline of political affinities and competing national projects, where oil acts both as an agent of imperial power and a catalyst for anti-colonial political projects. She examines how oil served as both the backbone for national political projects and a driver of transnational solidarity during global decolonization.

Sohrabi’s work has been exhibited internationally at the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Iran Documentary Film Festival Cinéma Vérité (International Mid-Length Award), IndieLisboa (Best Short Film Award), FicValdivia Chile (Special Jury Mention), VIDEOEX Switzerland (Honorable Mention), Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM), Sheffield Doc/Fest, VIDEONALE 16 Germany, Festival Images, and Centre Clark Montréal.

Carolina Fusilier

Kitchen with a View, 2019
HD Video with Stereo Sound
12:26 min

December 14, 2021 – January 15, 2022

In a dystopian Miami, human presence has been displaced by the proliferation of the real estate business. An automated camera moves through intact, perfectly designed rooms, with furniture and objects gleaming in the absence of any signs of use. The hyperreal alienation of these interiors constructs a temporality that belongs neither to the past nor the future but describes the current situation in some developing areas of Miami, Florida.

The video was produced as part of a residency commissioned by Locust Projects (USA) and Fundación Jumex (Mexico). The final installation included the skeletal remains of a ruined car, serving as seating for viewers to watch and listen to the projected image.

Carolina Fusilier (Buenos Aires, 1985) lives and works between Mexico and Argentina. Through a multidisciplinary approach, she explores human-landscape connections via intuitive future narratives.

She received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2019-2020, USA), and her project Kitchen with a View (2019) was supported by Fundación Jumex (Mexico) and Locust Projects (USA). In 2015, she received the Raul Urtasun-Frances Harley Grant (The Banff Centre, Canada).

Fusilier studied at the Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2006-2009), and completed additional studies at Düsseldorf Academy, Germany (2018-2019); Soma, Mexico (2016-2017); and the Artist Program at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina (2011). She was also part of Open Sessions, a program organized by The Drawing Center (New York, USA).

Her solo exhibitions include Kitchen with a View at *Locust Projects, Miami, USA (2019), Angel Engines at Natalia Hug Gallery, Cologne, Germany (2018), and Fenómeno at La Fábrica, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2014). She has recently exhibited at institutions such as Sculpture Center, New York (2018); The Drawing Center, New York (2019); Centro Cultural Tlatelolco, Mexico (2019); and MAMBA (Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires).

Her latest project, El Lado Quieto, is a feature film in collaboration with filmmaker Miko Revereza, commissioned by ACC (Asia Culture Center) Cinema Fund. It has been screened at festivals including Open City Film Festival, YIDFF (Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan), Dok-Leipzig (Germany), Black Canvas (Mexico), DMZ Docs (Korea), IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), Cámara Lúcida (Ecuador), and Pravo Ljudski Film Festival (Sarajevo).

AYER is a space for thinking with the moving image. A self-managed, non-profit project serving as a new platform for showcasing video projects in Guadalajara, Mexico. – www.ayerayer.org

AYER
Garibaldi 1151
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico 44600

Thursday and Friday 3:30–7:00 PM, Saturday 11:30 AM–3:00 PM by appointment.