Nobody\u2019s Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010
\nOctober 23, 2010-February 20, 2011<\/p>\n
Over the last ten years, \u201cland\u201d and \u201cspace\u201d have become pressing subjects for artistic investigation, so much so that we can now speak of a new generation of environmental artists.\u00a0 Nobody’s Property <\/em>will explore this development and probe the reasons for its appearance at the beginning of the twenty-first century.\u00a0 The exhibition features the work of seven artists and two artist-teams: Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Francis Al\u00ffs, Yael Bartana, Andrea Geyer, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Emre H\u00fcner, Matthew Day Jackson, Lucy Raven, and Santiago Sierra.\u00a0 Using media that range from video and photography to digital animation, performance, and assemblage, these artists parse the economic, geopolitical, and phantasmatic conditions of land and space.\u00a0 Their methods are as varied as their media, but they tend to coalesce around one of four approaches: the investigatory, the parafictional, the interrogative, and the interruptive.\u00a0 While some of the artists in the exhibition explore historical configurations of space, gauging its symbolic import for specific actors at specific moments in time, others consider concrete land-sites\u2014sites, that is, with a particular geographical correlate.\u00a0 Among these land-sites are the cities of Jerusalem and Beirut, the island of Vieques, the border town of Juarez, the Navajo Nation, and the industrial center of Tongling.\u00a0 Each one crystallizes a larger debate around issues such as war, globalization, cultural patrimony, civil rights, and national sovereignty.<\/p>\n