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Solo focuses on ventriloquism to explore the tensions between the voice and its projections, through the media of paintings, photographs, and video and audio works by Juan Araujo (Venezuela), Vasco Araujo (Portugal), Silvia Gruner (Mexico), Anneè Olofsson (Sweden), Laurie Simmons (U.S.), and Alonso Toro (Venezuela). Ventriloquism questions the origin of the voice, because changing that origin is exactly the trick of the art. Indeed, a common sketch is based on the tension between the ventriloquist and his figure, whose rebellious voice betrays and compromises the human behind the speech. Works gathered in this exhibition set up a game of unfolding voices, challenging notions of originality and identity.
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Stills from (Bottom) Laurie
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