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Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) is pleased to present In The Absence of Recombination curated by Rubén Gutiérrez and featuring the work of:

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José Dávila
Luis Miguel Suro
Mario García Torres
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"In the Absence of Recombination" proposes an analysis of the new art being created in Mexico. By presenting the work of five Mexican artists, the exhibition attempts to investigate the strategies artists use to produce and distribute their work. These tactics encompass appropriations, an obsessive interest in archiving everyday life, site-specific 'interventions' and the use of mass-produced materials. These new creators, all of them in their 30's, produce their work based on their assimilation of history and their familiarity with 'language' and new technologies. These artists represent an informed generation that reflects the attitudes and anxieties of a new social consciousness of an emerging society in Mexico. They are the product of one or more historical crises. They represent a generation that explores and reaffirms a commitment to the unruly development of knowledge. and a mexican video extravaganza.

Presented along with this exhibition, will be a viewing room for "A Mexican Video Extravaganza", which promises to bring the freshest sample of the current Mexican video production. The program is not tied to specific themes. It responds more to the different approaches and concerns that Mexican artists have today and how they are represented through this medium. Mauricio Alejo's videos are concerned with ideas of memory and daily life experiences, questioning the gap between reality and its representation. Edgar Orlaineta's videos, run parallel to Mauricio's but in Edgar's work the accidents of daily life are less planned, the relations between the objects and what they signify are less evident and the style more casual, almost in the fashion of an amateur video maker. Using animation Rodrigo Loyola's video plays with the idea of a flat society where everything one sees is a straight line. But ultimately, his work makes a reference to 'video' as a flat medium itself. Among the remaining artists included in this program are Mauricio Alejo, Artemio Narro, Gonzalo Lebrija, and many others.

Curated by María Alós.

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