— too bold, too big, to far: Unrealized artworks become visible. Artists from all over connect.
While mobility is restricted, borders and distances are clearly perceptible and existential uncertainties
are omnipresent, more artistic works than ever remain in the state of planning. Whether it fails due to
lack of time, space or money or accompanies your artistic work for years as bold dream — we are looking
for your projects, which have not (yet) made it beyond their state as an idea, concept, draft or prototype.
With this exhibition we want to open up a space and visibility in terms of concepts, sketches, drafts, plans
and photographs. These papers will be presented at the art space BLECH. in Halle, Germany.
At the same time, despite current challenges and immobility, this format allows to present
and bring international artists together. Since many things cannot take place on location and in person,
there will be an online programm additional to the exhibtion. For an exchange and encounters, the
participating artists and their work will be presented and discussed on a digital platform.
— too bold, too big, to far: Unrealized artworks become visible. Artists from all over connect.
While mobility is restricted, borders and distances are clearly perceptible and existential uncertainties
are omnipresent, more artistic works than ever remain in the state of planning. Whether it fails due to
lack of time, space or money or accompanies your artistic work for years as bold dream — we are looking
for your projects, which have not (yet) made it beyond their state as an idea, concept, draft or prototype.
With this exhibition we want to open up a space and visibility in terms of concepts, sketches, drafts, plans
and photographs. These papers will be presented at the art space BLECH. in Halle, Germany.
At the same time, despite current challenges and immobility, this format allows to present
and bring international artists together. Since many things cannot take place on location and in person,
there will be an online programm additional to the exhibtion. For an exchange and encounters, the
participating artists and their work will be presented and discussed on a digital platform.
paola livas
ABOUT
Paola Livas, Monterrey, México,1995
Curator, teacher, researcher, and artist. B.A. in Visual Arts and candidate to M.A. in Visual Arts from Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (UANL) in Mexico. Director of DEADLINE, program of periodical exhibitions. She has shown her work in solo shows and collective exhibitions in Costa Rica, Ireland, and Mexico. She has received several mentions and awards such as the Reseña in Monterrey, Mexico in 2017. Her work has been reviewed by dutch magazine See All This in its 99 Great Women edition and she has been included in several articles such as Creativxs to follow by Coolhuntermx. Her creative process involves visual and verbal expressions in different media and a feminist drive that draws from her experiences as a woman.
STATEMENT
I write from my outside in, aware of my observations. Art is the form of knowledge that nourishes me the most, and I try to make it go both ways. I like to understand the language of things, objects, images, and situations and say something in it. I work with and from my body, trying to be as transparent as I can. I tell stories as a novel would, since literature and writing are often the beginning of my pieces, but I translate them to the visual realm. My life experiences as a woman, thoughts, and questions are put out there to dialogue with those of others, and I try to listen and be heard. My voice might be quiet, but it is firm.
We asked ...
What role do unrealized projects play in your artistic practice?
They're always in the back of my head and sometimes take form in another project, at another time. Very few things and thoughts are completely discarded, I believe the creative process really does feed on everything we have experienced, heard, read, observed, etc. Nets of what could eventually be an art project populate my brain and I love that art gives me the opportunity to jump from one to another and build new nets, new frameworks, new questions and ideas.
Do you think there are artworks that should better never be realized? Why?
Yes, I remember this book by Lawrence Weiner that compiles a lot of his thesis, and one comes to mind: An Artwork COULD be constructed. There is also something in the unrealization, because it still exists in your brain, as an idea, and that is also art because art is a form of knowledge. I also remember Grapefruit by Yoko Ono, one of the most amazing reunions of fictions that I've read. I love working with fiction and bring it to reality, seeing the way it twists, repels and adapts to it.
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