Amalia Pica: UMMA Projects

May 28 - September 18, 2011

Motivated by a desire for civic participation, Amalia Pica's work often takes the form of temporary interventions on buildings, monuments, or objects, documenting the artist's insertion of her own body into the landscape or her subtle alteration of it. The London-based Argentinian artist (b. 1978) works primarily with sculpture, photography, film, and installation, adopting a conceptual approach marked by wit and a sense of play. Perception, time, memory, and a sense of how particular gestures read in different cultural contexts are central to Pica's work, alternately highlighting moments of connection and disjunction. The promise - as well as the uncertainty - of communication is a persistent concern in Pica's oeuvre. Megaphones, antennae, podiums, and signal flags are recurring motifs, though rarely are these devices shown in a moment of use. Depicted at rest or disconnected from their functionality, they become figures for potential communication, carriers of a message that always remains hypothetical.

This exhibition is made possible in part by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and CEW Frances and Sydney Lewis Visiting Leaders Fund.

Images

Amalia Pica
Reconstruction of an Antenna (as seen on TV)
2009
mixed media
Courtesy of the artist and Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles

Amalia Pica
Babble, Blabber, Chatter, Gibber, Jabber, Patter, Prattle, Rattle,Yammer, Yada, Yada, Yada, 2009
35mm slide sequence (80 slides), hand made flags, dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles

Amalia Pica
Sorry For the Metaphor #2
2010
photocopies, dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles

Timeline

Exhibition Timeline

SatMay 28
Exhibition Opens
Fri
Sep 16
UMMA Dialogues: Amalia Pica
5:00pm8:00pm
Exhibitions Related / Gallery Talks and Tours
SunSep 18
Exhibition Closes
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