Artist: Juan Antonio Olivares
Exhibition title: Transference
Venue: ChertLüdde, Berlin, Germany
Date: September 17 – October 30, 2021
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin
ChertLüdde is pleased to present Transference, a solo exhibition by Juan Antonio Olivares (b. 1988, Puerto Rico, lives and works in New York). The artist’s first venture in the main gallery after his inaugural presentation at Bungalow, Transference is a multi-channel holographic video installation revolving around moments of exhilaration, visions, and hallucinations– probing the nature of social connection and intimate exchange, and, as the title suggests, projections of subconscious thoughts onto others.
The exhibition references the book Awakenings, neurologist Oliver Sacks’ 1968 study of institutionalized patients in nearly akinetic states, known then as “sleeping sickness”–who were miraculously revived, albeit for a short time, by the administration of a revolutionary dopamine-producing medication called L-dopa. Sacks’ subjects, who upon waking completely lacked perception of the months or years passed in their unconscious states, experienced bewilderment or despair at the changes around them as well as in themselves—most, nonetheless, displayed a youthful exuberance.
Each channel begins with a journey through an intestinal tunnel: an endoscopy into a realm where forms morph and transform to the sound of a pulsating electronic track. Hyperreal images sublimate inner experiences—currents of pleasure from an unplaceable vastness.
Juan Antonio Olivares works in digital animation, video installation, sound sculpture and drawing to create psychologically charged environments that merge nature and technology. Mining the subconscious impulses that reflect our deeply embedded fears and desires, Olivares abstracts them through digital interfaces. His work explores humanity through constantly evolving forms of image-making, connecting viewers beyond an immediate time and place. He is currently based in New York.
Olivares has exhibited in venues such as: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York; Off Vendome, New York; and M/L Artspace, Venice.
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″, Photo by Andrea Rossetti, Courtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, Transference, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, “Transference”, 2021, 3D animation, 3 LED holograms, powder-coated steel telescopic brackets, audio-channel splitter, stereo-amps, speakers, subwoofer, speaker-wire, audio file, 15′ 50″Photo by Andrea RossettiCourtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Juan Antonio Olivares, New York
Juan Antonio Olivares, Untitled (endoscopy), 2021, Graphite on paper, 127.4 × 96.5 × 3 cm, Photo byAndrea Rossetti, Courtesy of The Artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin
Juan Antonio Olivares, Untitled (fertilization), 2021, Graphite on paper, 127.4 × 96.5 × 3 cm, Photo by Andrea Rossetti, Courtesy of The Artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin
Juan Antonio Olivares, Untitled (embryo), 2021, Graphite on pape, 127.4 × 96.5 × 3 cm, Photo byAndrea Rossetti, Courtesy of The Artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin