Yatra A Twenty Year Journey. An exhibition by Antonio Jose Guzman

Yatra
A Twenty Year Journey
An exhibition by Antonio Jose Guzman

KNIPSU
10.06 -- 26.06
Komediebakken 9

'I wished to go completely outside and to make a symbolic start for my enterprise of regenerating the life of humankind within the body of society and to prepare a positive future in this context.' Joseph Beuys

'Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.' Joseph Beuys

YATRA comprises the photographic work of two of Guzman's latest projects: the Bas Jan Ader and Paul Gilroy inspired research project Piertopolis, and Guzman's documentary trilogy The Day We Surrender to the Air. Both projects comprehend a search for a new (visual) definition of notions like migration, gravity, locality, ancestry and identity. Taking his own mixed background and his twenty-year experience as photographer and visual artist as an example, Guzman tries to conceive the causes and results of human displacement.

The exhibition at KNIPSU presents Guzman's ongoing research into DNA, movement and replacement. Focusing on the pier as both a means for connection and separation, Guzman tries to capture the ambivalences that surround the act of traveling. A pier suggests nostalgia and contemplation, as well as hope and relief. The DNA-like shape of a pier expresses change, improvement, and site-specificity.

The tables, photographs and maps of the exhibition contain the material that Guzman gathered and created during his personal journeys to the places of his origin, including his two months residency here in Bergen.

YATRA, Sanskrit for 'journey' or 'destination' involves the pilgrimage to the sacred places that are associated with Hindu epics. A YATRA is a non-obligatory but yet desirable undertaking, in which the journey is as important as the destination.

Siri Driessen

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