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ESPACIO
LA REBECA (LA REBECA SPACE)
Tranversal 17, #36-21, Teusaquillo
Bogota Colombia
Tel:245 1040
larebeca@cable.net.co
www.michica.org
LA REBECA SPACE is an independent and non-profit space founded by
Michèle Faguet.
This is a two-way proposal project, on the one hand, it is meant to
provide a space where local artists and their works can hold a dialogue
going beyond social, fragmented and scattered boundaries which exist
in our city. On the other hand, it is a place to invite foreign artists
to stay in the city for a brief artistic production season, so as
to set a kind of interaction among artists, who, though having diverse
artistic backgrounds share similar conceptual interests. The international
reach of the project would help, in this way, to enrich the local
artistic scenery while easing the entrance of emerging local artists
to the foreign artistic circuits.
The concerning discourse for the reception of artistic practices,
on behalf of the periphery, tried to solve the discrepancies between
the specificity of such practices and their relation with the opinions
of the so-called “global”. Putting this dialectic game into
practice ensures the automatic exclusion of the art, whose references
prove irrelevant or simply non-understandable, in an international
context or even still, which keep untouched a methodology which has
become inapplicable due to the flow of information, characteristic
of the very same global process. Consequently, this project expects
to get rid of the easy polarity between the “local” and
“global” when it recognizes that all conceptual work grants
a diversity of individual but complex readings through its reference
to a plurality of historical forms. In other words, although all cultural
productions come up from a specific context, it does not have to limit
itself to representing that context. Even when, the kind of proposal
is local as it searches to refer to social and certain conditions
of making art in Colombia, its international element tries to take
Colombia out of its cultural isolation at a time when Bogotá
becomes a feasible place to present contemporary artistic works produced
in different parts of the world. A comprehensive part of the program
will be, therefore, a series of talks with artists aimed to foster
a lively debate over the work showed at the space.
The program for 2002-2003 consists of a balanced selection of artists
and movie-makers, both emerging and established, local and foreign.
In this event special attention to the presentation of Latin American
artists was given, following up the logic of cultural, linguistic
and geographical proximity that expects to avoid the axis that has
located the art world center in certain American or European cities
like New York, London and Berlin, thus interfering the exchange among
the Latin American countries. Also, a key role was given to the works
related to gender, due to the fact that we are still in a situation
where-specially in the most traditional societies- the woman is assigned
the spectator role more than the producer one.
To top it all, Space La Rebeca is an open and including space which
will always be willing to receive project proposals of all the people
interested in it.
THE DIRECTOR OF SPACE LA REBECA IS MICHELE FAGUET.
Michele is holds a PhD in Cultural History from the University Brown
(Providence, the USA). She did some post-graduate studies in the art
school of the Catholic University of Chile (Santiago de Chile) and
a Mastery in Art History of the University of Columbia (New York).
She is a professor at the University of Los Andes (Bogotá)
and she worked as a director of the Bakery (Mexico DF), she is a freelance
publisher for Artforum, and an assistant publisher for Trans-arts.cultures.media.
She has written for: Arts Atlantic, Parchute, Luna Cumea, etc. and
besides doing some curational projects for La Rebeca and the Bakery,
she held some shows: “Visual noise/visual memory: recent videos
from Colombia” (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2002);
“General versus Particular”, Cristian Silva ( El Parche,
Bogota, 2002); “Especes d’espaces”, Chilean Gallery,
LOCAL/LAC, message salon (Swiss Institute, New York, 1998-99). |