Focus

Tropical Modernism and the ‘potential of nostalgia’; photographs, prints and new layers of memory

Community organizing and AIDS activism; ‘Full Body Quotation’ and party hosting

Documentary films and sci-fi encounters; assumption, truth and magic

Symmetry, distance and intimacy; poetry, concrete and grass

Luxury consumption and low-cost production; labour, exchange, weight and money

The land and the sea; the mapping of clandestine journeys; the intertwining of personal stories and politics

A digital approach to sculpture and installation; physical comedy and the very recent past

Politics and anthropometry: measuring history through yourself

Slippages and the peculiarities of language; its problems and potential

Public performance and invisibility; social alienation and the artist’s role

Deconstructed canvases and layers of reference

Museological display, truth, fiction and ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’

Facts and false memories; nostalgia and ciphers of experience

High definition videos and B-movie soundtracks; technical effects and cadavers

Reconstruction, propaganda and entertainment; politics, trials and fencing

Historical, social and political questions: ‘how did we get here?’

Water bottles, pills and emergency blankets

Machines, magic and music; perception, the body and beyond

Rules, strategies and conventions; role-play, photographs and cupboards

Fetish objects, totems and mementos; historical signs and the paranormal