autohistorias
24 April - 30 June 2024
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“If I don’t have access to the truth I’ll make it up, I tell myself, preferring my fictions to the lies and truths other make for me, about me”
Gloria Anzaldúa, Ethnic Autohistorias-teorías: Writing the History of the Subject (1989)
In 1989 the Chicana theorist, poet and activist Gloria Anzaldúa wrote a formally inventive text that moves between poetry, personal telling, historical and political commentary. Anzaldúa emboldens an active subjectivity, the seizing of intimate stories and fiction to fashion collective narratives.
Animated by this spirit, the collective exhibition autohistorias brings together a group of artists who – from the sixteen century to the twenty first – have used the self as a manner by which to tell history, posit political allegory and use storytelling as an emancipatory tool.
A group of self-fabulists, chimeras, beautiful liars, chingadas, a group of bad girls who traverse complexity with literary flair, aesthetic clarity, performative memory. Fiction, autobiography and speculation become the outfits of truth making.
With
Aya Abu Hawash, Malek Abdelmajeed, Sonia Andrade, Ali Arkady, Mohamed Azouzi, Amanda Baggs, Anna Boghiguian, Mohamed Chafei, Antoine Conde, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (d’après), Ladji Diaby, Antoine Dochniak, Mehdi Gorbuz, Francisco de Goya, Anis Nabil Harbaoui, Hessie, Lubaina Himid, Liên Hoàng-Xuân, Nina Jayasuriya, Bahar Kocabey, Simone Lagrand, Lalitha Lajmi, Hugo Laporte, Nge Lay, Lisa Lecuivre, Huda Lutfi, Sehaj Malik, Nicole, Clarisse Pillard, Lou Reina, Jagdeep Raina, Rembrandt, Roseman Robinot, Vega Royer Gaspard, Saradibiza, Sequoia Scavullo, Mahmoud Sehili, Afrah Shafiq, Margarita Sherstiuk & Igor Kanivets, Elisabetta Sirani, Charwei Tsai, Libo Wei, Alexandre Yang, Mia Yu, Unica Zürn
