Artist: Daniel Jacoby
Exhibition title: 315
Venue: Ciaccia Levi, Paris, France
Date: October 14 – December 9, 2023
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Ciaccia Levi, Paris
Ciaccia Levi presents the new film by Daniel Jacoby : « 315 ».
A sequence of family anecdotes and historical events coinciding with the artist’s date of birth in 1985 takes on a different tone as he unearths what happened in his native Peru on that specific day in 1989: the Tarapoto massacre, a targeted killing of LGBTQIA+ people in a discotheque, that is recognized as one of the worst hate crimes in Peru’s history.
The monotonous pattern of facts pertaining to the 31st of May suddenly begins to unveil connections to notions of oppressive masculinity, the nuanced tactics employed by imperialist forces, and a neoliberal dream that facilitated the neglect of an important episode in Peruvian history.
