INSPIRE Seminar Series: Moving Memories - An Exchange Between Artists Luis Carlos Tovar and Pablo Gershanik
This INSPIRE seminar with Pablo Gershanik and Luis Carlos Tovar took place on Thursday 13 October 14:00-15:30 CET.
To watch the recording of the event, please click here.
With their feet anchored in the North and their hearts gazing to the South, Pablo Gershanik and Luis Carlos Tovar gather in Paris to exchange on what it is to be Latino American in Europe and what it means to have lived internal exile. The two artists have left their birth territories and share a reflection about discontinuous geographies as a symbolic construction.
Pablo Gershanik (Argentina-Mexico-Toulouse) and Luis Carlos Tovar (Colombia-Châtillon) have tried to develop in their artistic practice a collective reflection, which has allowed them to decentralize their creative practice. Memory, reconstruction of stories and creation of otherness have been the transversal topics of their artistic and conceptual explorations. They are particularly interested in how personal memories shape collective memory, to formulate a revision of established memory. They also work on exile and migration using multidisciplinary approaches such as theater, performance, expanded photography, installation and artists books.
In this upcoming INSPIRE seminar, they will share some ideas about how intimate can become a political gesture and how art and artistic practice can be an act of memory through two projects: Luis Carlos´s photobook Jardín de mi Padre (My Father’s garden), and Pablo’s intimate model Ochenta Balas sobre el Ala (Eighty Bullets to the Wing).
The event will take place on Microsoft teams at this link: https://bit.ly/3rsRgFP
Link to the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/584103033463821?ref=newsfeed
Luis Carlos Tovar
Luis Carlos Tovar is a visual artist working and living between Paris and Bogotá. His main topics of research are discontinuous geographies and post-memory. Especially interested in post-photography and archives, he explores the creation processes of otherness and how personal memories shape collective memory. His work integrates different mediums, such as photography, engraving, collage and video installation. Read more about Luis Carlos on his INSPIRE profile.
Pablo Gershanik
Pablo Gershanik is an artist, actor, director and theater pedagogue from Argentina and France. By animating inanimate objects in live and mediated performance, he interrogates the precarities of history, memory and the everyday to explore resilience and healing from personal and collective trauma. Read more about Pablo on his INSPIRE profile.
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