The I ching or The Book of Changes is an oracular book of Taoist origin that is said to be able to interpret the present situation and predict the future of those who consult it. Invited by the Klosterrüine Berlin’s online programme Time in Crisis on artistic production during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lorenzo Sandoval edited a whole collection of images from films, photo archives, YouTube videos or Instagram materials that he had collected over the years. The result translates into a sort of cosmology of our time, underlined using the vertical screen and a grammar of associations based on the concatenation of concepts that confront the rhythms, habits, works, gestures and constellations of our present.
Lorenzo Sandoval works as an artist and curator. He holds a B.F.A and a Masters in Photography, Art and Technology from the UPV (Valencia, Spain). He received curatorial prizes such as Inéditos 2011, Can Felipa curatorial prize and Nogueras Blanchard 2012. He won the art prize ‘Generación 2017’ presented in La Casa Encendida (Madrid) and ‘V Beca DKV- Álvarez Margaride’ for ‘Shadow Writing (Algorithm /Quipu)’ at LABoral, Gijón, 2017. Sandoval was nominated for the ‘Berlin Art Prize 2018’ and ‘Premio Arte Contemporáneo Cervezas Alhambra 2020’. He presented ‘Shadow Writing (Lace/Variations)’ in Lehman + Silva Gallery in Porto and Nottingham Contemporary. He was part of ‘Canine Wisdom for the Barking Dog. Exploring the sonic cosmologies of Halim El Dabh’ curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Kamila Metwaly and Marie Helénè Pereira for Dak’art Biennale 2018. Sandoval was artist in residency with Bisagra in Lima, culminating in an exhibition at Amano Museum Textile Museum. He was part of the Miracle Workers Collective representing Finland in the Venice Biennale 2019. He presented ‘Shadow Writing (Fábrica Colectiva)’ at IVAM Alcoi, a research on the collectivization of factories related to sound. In 2020, presented “Shadow Writing” with pieces from all the chapters of the project, curated by Emanuele Guidi at Centro Párraga in Murcia. He was part of “Here History Began. Tracing the Re/Verberations of Halim El-Dabh” at SAVVY Contemporary. Together with Tono Vízcaino, they opened ‘Industria. Matrices, tramas y sonidos’ for IVAM in 2021. Since 2015, Sandoval runs The Institute for Endotic Research, which opened as a venue in 2018, co-directed by Benjamin Busch, and recently by Amouefa Amoussouvi too.
Last update 15th November 2021
Diana Padrón is a researcher, critic and independent curator. She holds a B.A. degree in Art History from the University of La Laguna, M.A. in Advanced Studies in Art History from the University of Barcelona and a Ph.D. from the same university in Society and Culture: History, Anthropology, Arts, Heritage and Cultural Management. She has been a visiting post-doc researcher at the Università di Padova, Université de Lille and Goldsmiths College – University of London. She collaborates with several art, thought and politics journals, and has been co-editor with Martí Peran of the journal REG|AC (Scientific Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art of the Universitat de Barcelona). As an independent curator she has organised exhibitions for the San Martín Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Museo Picasso de Barcelona, Loop Barcelona Festival, 13th Havana Biennial, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporànea, Centro de Arte La Regenta and Casal Solleric. She is a member of the Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo (IAC) and the Associació Catalana de la Crítica d’Art (ACCA).
Last update 15th November 2021