Ivorypress Displays Los Carpinteros´s “Bazar”

Ivorypress has been showcasing, since February 18, the second exhibition by Cuban collective Los Carpinteros, entitled “Bazar“, which includes a group of small-and-medium-size format pieces, and three videos that show a change in their working interests.

“Bazar” reflects on the human figure from an anthropological approach, by presenting a series of organic and symbolic processes, with some underlying questions that have to do with the temporality, aesthetic or cultural and social trivialization.

The main core of the display is made up of three videos. One of them, Conga irreversible, documents the performance – with the same name – carried out by Los Carpinteros back in 2012, within the framework of the 11^th Havana Biennale. The video inverts the sense of the choreography and music, thus suppressing the burst of colors that are usually included in these works.

Another video, Pellejo, shows the physical transformations that take place in a human body, through a sexual intercourse, thus screening the progressive aging of it. Finally, Polaris describes a journey to the Pyrenees carried out by a musician with his drums. The idea of pilgrimage plays the leading role as an abstract and personal ritual.

Other pieces are based on the advertising format, but without any filter, so they can reach out all segments of public. “La cosa está de pinga” or “Odio como suenan las maracas” are some examples.

As for the advertising world and its techniques, the show includes two portraits, delineated with LED strips, which represent Noam Chomsky and Santiago Sierra; or the piece La gran rasta that reflects how time goes by, through the change in the color of hair, speaking of a past and present history of rebelliousness and civic discontent; as well as daily-life objects that become short essays.