Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros presents Miguel Angel Rios an exhibition by one of the pioneers of the concept of the Latin American as a political strategy and paradoxical question, presents a new production titled The Ghost of Modernity, which takes the viewer through the borders of the peripheral landscapes of Peru, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Originally conceived as a three-screen projection, the piece features a transparent cube, a paradigm of modernity, to anthropologically dissect space in the continent.
Miguel Angel Rios The Ghost of Modernity, 2012. Single chanel video. Courtesy of the artist.
In contrast with his recent videos, Ríos disregards explicitly violent images to explore the abandoned and dusty time frame that characterizes the margins of Latin America; social spaces disconnected with the dynamism and agitated qualities of the global economy. In the style of the work he produced in the eighties, Ríos returns to a position of political identity that underlies the Viewpoint of the Vanquished.
With the screening of The Ghost of Modernity and a series of sober drawings (white on white), Ríos reinforces the use of film as an eyewitness account to the political debate that distinguishes the social and cultural stages of these countries.
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