YOU AND ME AND EVERYONE WE KNOW
2020-04-27Sometimes a title is enough. I admit I came to this one unconsciously, without originally realizing it was cribbed from a 2005 movie of the same name. The movie consists of several plots that revolve around the intertwined lives of a number of characters. Once I realized my title also constituted a dose of plagiarism—or better put, an homage—I decided to keep it. We are all intertwined as never before; we are also isolated like never before. Our state of limbo is caused by a plague that, in normal times, we’d describe as resembling a bad movie.
The simple idea of being able to invoke different voices—you, me and everyone we know—serves as a pretext for this exhibition: a show that is 100% virtual and that deals with both intimacy and isolation, the current obligation to engage in social distancing, but also the acute need to nurture personal and professional ties. Putting together this show is different from organizing a normal exhibition. It requires greater faith, generosity and introspection, because it also requires one pose and answer, at least partially, a basic question: how do we invoke the possibilities of art to trigger ideas, stories, conversations, emotions, feelings and mental states amid this global pandemic to reflect on our external and internal realities?
Christian Viveros-Fauné. Brooklyn, April 9th 2020
Opposite – Señal de Abandono 39, 2019
Exhibition runs through to May 3rd, 2020
Sabrina Amrani
Madera, 23
28004 Madrid
Spain
