H Y P E R C O N N E C T E D at MMOMA

Artists: Adriano Amaral, Hicham Berrada, Lupo Borgonovo, Cécile B. Evans, Neringa Cerniauskaite (aka Pakui Hardware), June Crespo, Diogo Evangelista, Guan Xiao, Rodrigo Hernandez, Patrick Hough, Sasha Litvintseva, Adrien Missika, Saskia Noor van Imhoff, Yuri Pattison, Mariana Silva, Iza Tarasewicz, Ana Vaz & Tristan Bera, Zoe Williams

Exhibition title: H Y P E R C O N N E C T E D

Curated by: João Laia

Venue: MMOMA (Moscow Museum of Modern Art), V Moscow International Biennial of Young Art, Moscow, Russia

Date: June 30 – August 14, 2016

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and MMOMA

In the current period of accelerated motion our minds and bodies move, change and adapt to the settings and networks we navigate daily. We shape-shift while opening windows, closing folders and browsing through reflecting surfaces; soft borders permanently redefining our identities. As a consequence, any hypothetical separation between nature and culture has been dissolved, our natural environment becoming a cultural environment. Whereas the speculations grouped under object-oriented philosophy highlight a recomposition of the world that questions the centrality of the human and opens alternative ontologies for consideration, the anthropocene reframes mankind as a geological force. Such strands of thinking have added to the on-going crisis of modernism’s defining idea of humanity and nature as distinct entities. We are acknowledging our hybrid natural-cultural constitution as well as our state of permanent becoming as agents among other agents, a position expressing a co-extensivity with one’s surroundings in which all organisms are inter-dependent, forming a renewed eco-philosophical thinking that acknowledges our humanity in the midst of an intricate environment. Everything is connected, not only humans through heightened communication and other scientific and cultural developments but also the whole cosmos as a multiple unity. From the dissolution of previously stable conceptions of the world emerge renewed possibilities to articulate hopes and fears. This exhibition looks at how contemporary practices have been looking at our present situation as a moment of shift in which the correlation between object and subject or distinctions such as nature and culture are being surpassed and replaced for a conception of the world as an interlinked collectivity. Beyond apocalyptic scenarios or utopian visions, the artists included propose a reassessment of our current condition and look towards the future-present from an empowering stance that challenges boundaries. “Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed”. We are all together in this: one is becoming plural and intensely connected.

Zoe Williams, Châteaux Double Wide Aide, 2016
HD Video , 5 mins, courtesy of Galerie Antoine Levi, Camera work by Amy Gwatkin

Zoe Williams, Châteaux Double Wide Aide, 2016 (video still)
HD Video , 5 mins, courtesy of Galerie Antoine Levi, Camera work by Amy Gwatkin

Zoe Williams, You Consume Me Series, 2013
35 mm slide, courtesy of Galerie Antoine Levi

Zoe Williams, You Consume Me Series, 2013 (slide still)
35 mm slide, courtesy of Galerie Antoine Levi

Sasha Litvintseva, Evergreen, 2014
HD video, 49 mins

Sasha Litvintseva, Evergreen, 2014 (video still)
HD video, 49 mins

Sasha Litvintseva, Evergreen, 2014 (video excerpt)
HD video, 49 mins

Guan Xiao, Action, 2014
HD video installation, courtesy of Antenna Space

Guan Xiao, Action, 2014 (video excerpt)
HD video installation, courtesy of Antenna Space

Diogo Evangelista, Volunteers, 2016

Zoe Williams, Chamber Aide, from the Chateaux Double Wide series, 2015
Hand built porcelain fired and glazed, 10x5x3 cm
Courtesy of Galerie Antoine Levi, Paris

Zoe Williams, Ruined Chamber Ornament, 2015
Hand built porcelain fired and glazed, 40x20x0.5 cm
Courtesy of Galerie Antoine Levi, Paris

Cécile B. Evans, Hyperlinks or it Didn’t Happen, 2014
HD video

Cécile B. Evans, Hyperlinks or it Didn’t Happen, 2014 (video still)
HD video

Zoe Williams, Ruined Olisbos, 2013
Cast jesmonite, 25 x 5 cm,courtesy of Galerie Antoine Levi, Paris

Rodrigo Hernandez, “No sé cuántos días y noches rodaron sobre mí” (I don’t know how many days and nights rolled over me), 2016
Mixed media (papier-maché, wood, metal-lack), Courtesy of Galeria Madragoa

Lupo Borgonovo, Fruttolo, 2014
Silicon rubber

Mariana Silva, Friends of Interpretable Objects, 2013-2015, 2016 (video still)
Video installation

Mariana Silva, For More Information (Interview with Miguel Tamen), 2013
Video Installation

Mariana Silva, Digital Specimens: Pointcloudfallout, 2015 (video still)

Mariana Silva, Digital Specimens: Pointcloudfallout, 2015

Mariana Silva, Friends of Interpretable Objects, 2013-2015, 2016
Video installation

Lupo Borgonovo, Maialito, 2014
Mixed media (silicon, pigment)

Saskia Noor van Imhoff, #+23.00, 2016
Mixed media (C-print, nutwood frame), Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Fons Welters

Patrick Hough, Object Interviews (Part II), 2013
Courtesy of the artist and narrative projects gallery

Patrick Hough, Object Interviews (Part II), 2013 (video excerpt)
Courtesy of the artist and narrative projects gallery

Patrick Hough, Object Interviews (Part II), 2013 (video still)
Courtesy of the artist and narrative projects gallery

Patrick Hough, Object Interviews (Part I, II, III), 2013
Courtesy of the artist and narrative projects gallery

Lupo Burgonovo, Ear, 2015
Bronze, 40 x 23 x 10 cm

Adriano Amaral, Untitled, 2015
Mixed media (Neon light, anthracite coal, silicone)
Courtesy of Galeria Múrias Centeno

Adriano Amaral, Untitled, 2014 (video still)
Courtesy of Galeria Múrias Centeno

Adriano Amaral, Untitled, 2016
Mixed media,Courtesy of Galeria Múrias Centeno

Yuri Pattison, 1014, 2015
Courtesy of the artist, mother’s tankstation limited and H.M.Klosterfelde Edition

Yuri Pattison, 1014, 2015 (video still)
Courtesy of the artist, mother’s tankstation limited and H.M.Klosterfelde Edition

Yuri Pattison, 1014, 2015
Courtesy of the artist, mother’s tankstation limited and H.M.Klosterfelde Edition

Ana Vaz and Tristan Bera, A Film, Reclaimed, 2015

Ana Vaz and Tristan Bera, A Film, Reclaimed, 2015 (trailer)

June Crespo, Kanala, 2015
Mixed media (concrete, resin, silicon, paper)

Adrien Missika, Darvaza, 2011
Courtesy of Bugada & Cargnel & Proyectos Monclova

Adrien Missika, Darvaza, 2011 (video still)
Courtesy of Bugada & Cargnel & Proyectos Monclova

Adrien Missika, Darvaza, 2011
Courtesy of Bugada & Cargnel & Proyectos Monclova

Adrien Missika, Babylon (Wildlife Rehab Center), 2016
Installation, mixed media (nylon, plants, soil, LED)

Hicham Berrada, Les Fleurs, 2016 (video still)
Courtesy of the artist, Kamel Mennour gallery and G.r.e.c. /Cnap

Hicham Berrada, Pressage, 2004-2016 (video still)
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery kamel mennour

Adrien Missika, Babylon (Wildlife Rehab Center), 2016
Installation, mixed media (nylon, plants, soil, LED)

Pakui Hardware, Lost Heritage, 2015
Installation, mixed media (grass rolls, coated waterproof plywood, wheels, plaster, resin, silicone, tripod, LED lamp and sculptural objects)

Iza Tarasewicz, The Means, the Milieu I, 2014-2015
Installation, mixed media (reishi, oxidate metal, hemp fibre, ochre, rubber, cement)