We Are All Under the Same Sky
Gabriella Torres-Ferrer (artist)
Mara-Johanna Kölmel (curator)
GRAND OPENING Friday, 14th of May, 2021 from 7 to 9 PM CEST
PRISKA PASQUER VIRTUAL GALLERY
We Are All Under the Same Sky questions the significance of the body in our technological present by addressing both our physical and virtual realities within networked, globalized, and data-driven worlds. How are we still connected to each other regardless of our physical locations? What do these different kinds of connections involve? How do such connections maintain traditional power relations or give them new forms?
Gabriella Torres-Ferrer's transmedial practice strives to break down hegemonic narratives by challenging interfaces, modes of spectatorship, and materialities. By connecting references to net culture, neocolonial landscapes, ecologies, and globalization, their work seeks out the potential for the respective transformations of these phenomena. This artistic approach can be experienced sensually in the exhibition space, which has transported the Priska Pasquer Gallery onto a cloud. As crucial element of digital infrastructures, the cloud is an important concept for the artist and curator. It therefore becomes the central visual metaphor of the exhibition, through which power relations inscribed in the digital sphere are explored.
The show thus becomes a plea for alternative infrastructures to expose and counter oppressive regimes. Gabriella Torres-Ferrer’s solo show, curated by Mara-Johanna Kölmel, reminds us that we all live under the same sky. In doing so, the exhibition pleads for radical togetherness as an alternative to the feigned empathy implicit in our constant social connectedness.
We Are All Under the Same Sky is based on the title of one of Gabriella Torres-Ferrer’s works. The exhibition builds on the shared interests of the artist and the curator Mara-Johanna Kölmel, who met as fellows at Akademie Schloss Solitude. Mara-Johanna Kölmel’s curatorial projects regularly unite international scholars, curators, activists and practitioners to explore the digital sphere as a site for methodological experimentation, social activism and artistic intervention. Gabriella Torres-Ferrer considers the implications of existence within networked globalized life and explores their interest in the societal transformations of modern cybernetics. In essence, their works examine how our digital reality redefines nature.
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