‘A Dream Dreaming A Dream: Nuevas maneras de estar en el mundo’ [New Ways of Being in the World]
Wednesday 17 November 2021, 11:30 am — 1 pm
— A conversation between Daniel Steegmann Mangrané and Soledad Gutiérrez
- Speakers
- Daniel Steegmann Mangrané and Soledad Gutiérrez
- Venue
- La Pedrera
- Price
- Free admission
- Language
- Spanish
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This year's edition of the LOOP Talks poses specific attention to highlighting the work of the artists participating to the Fair. Among them, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané presents his video 'A Dream Dreaming A Dream' (2020) with gallery Esther Schipper (Berlin). In this conversation with curator Soledad Gutiérrez, the artist will unfold the research behind the work and open up the conversation to broader concerns.
The work A Dream Dreaming A Dream is an online infinitely self-generating animation of a dreaming panther walking through a forest. Always experienced differently, the feline’s dream is persistently interrupted, the forest collapses, and the spell is broken. Confused and drowsy, the panther yawns and stretches, only to find herself inside a similar dreamlike scenario once more. She then starts to explore again, continuously acclimatizing to finding herself in yet another cycle of dreaming and wakefulness. This work is inspired by indigenous peoples’ perceptions of the forest and of the entities that inhabit it beyond the human: the divine characters of animals, rivers, plants, as well as the xapiris, the shamanic master spirits of the Yanomami people of Brazil. A Dream Dreaming a Dream Dreaming layers different forms of knowledge and knowing—indigenous wisdom, the images and sensations of sleep, and the artificial intelligence of a computer processor—and calls for new ways of being in the world.
The project has been produced by TBA21 | Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, and curated by Soledad Gutiérrez for the online platform st_age.
On the occasion of this talk, the work will constitute the point of departure for a broader discussion around: our relationship with the nature; the idea of interspecism and of the magical forces that inhabit the natural world; the construction of a dimension that is parallel to physical reality thanks to artificial intelligence.
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
- Artist, Jury, Participant, Speaker
1977, Barcelona
Born and educated in Barcelona, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané now lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. He is part of the generation of artists that began their production at the beginning of this century. The artists’ varied techniques and media include film, sound, drawing, kaleidoscopic collages, photography, sculpture and gardens. Nature is a constant in his work, which explores the contamination and affinity of forms that exist between nature, art and architecture. Concerned with the global ecological crisis, he believes that any change in the natural environment also modifies our own nature. Both in his sculptures, which are extremely fragile and incorporate altered organic material, and in his filmic work, the artist experiments with the correspondences between organic and geometric forms, and with the complex network of dependencies between natural order and the order created by human beings.
Solo exhibitions include: Kunsthalle Münster (2020), Hangar Bicocca, Milan (2019), Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes (2019), Nottingham Contemporary (2019), CCS Bard College, New York State (2018), Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (2018), Fundaçaô Serralves, Porto (2017), Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín (2016) and Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro (2015). He has participated in biennials and triennials in Lyon, Berlin, New York, Paris, Porto Alegre and São Paulo, among others. His work is included in the collections of Tate Modern, London; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Museu Serralves, Porto; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Castilla y León; Fundació “la Caixa” and MACBA, Barcelona.
Soledad Gutiérrez
- Curator, Speaker
Soledad Gutiérrez Rodríguez is part of the curatorial team of TBA21 and is Executive Producer of st_age. She has been working in the arts for the last twenty years, occupying different positions in various institutions from the Guggenheim Bilbao, to the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Most recently, she was the Director of CentroCentro in Madrid, where she developed a program based on contemporary artistic practice and collective learning. Her research deals with cooperative practices and the immaterial potential of art realized through performance and collective processes.
Last update: 7th November 2020
