La Bienal 2013
Here is Where We Jump
This is the seventh edition of El Museo’s biennial exhibition. Under the title Here is Where We Jump!, La Bienal features work by artists, from newly-minted to mid-career, who live and work in the greater metropolitan area of New York City. La Bienal is a collective exhibition, a research project oriented towards a better understanding of the conditions under which artistic communities produce, present and think through art in our city. The artists’ methods and processes are of significance, as is the context in which they are interpreted. Here is Where We Jump is the title of this year‘s edition. This phrase refers to a quote from a fable by Aesop, The Braggart, in which a boast about a jump results in a challenge to repeat that particular feat: “jump here, jump now, here is where you jump.
Underscoring the trope of both time and space, the artists who are at various stages of their careers were born in South America as well as the Philippines but currently live and work in the greater New York City area. Other artists who are native to the region or elsewhere in the U.S. have also ventured far and wide and exhibited their work in international contexts. In moving like nomads and responding to globalization while concomitantly addressing local social and political issues, the exhibiting artists jump indeed. And like the audience of Aesop’s protagonist, we are riveted by the stories they tell us; but the tales they share are not transmitted orally as they are embodied in their artworks.
Here is Where We Jump
This is the seventh edition of El Museo’s biennial exhibition. Under the title Here is Where We Jump!, La Bienal features work by artists, from newly-minted to mid-career, who live and work in the greater metropolitan area of New York City. La Bienal is a collective exhibition, a research project oriented towards a better understanding of the conditions under which artistic communities produce, present and think through art in our city. The artists’ methods and processes are of significance, as is the context in which they are interpreted. Here is Where We Jump is the title of this year‘s edition. This phrase refers to a quote from a fable by Aesop, The Braggart, in which a boast about a jump results in a challenge to repeat that particular feat: “jump here, jump now, here is where you jump.
Underscoring the trope of both time and space, the artists who are at various stages of their careers were born in South America as well as the Philippines but currently live and work in the greater New York City area. Other artists who are native to the region or elsewhere in the U.S. have also ventured far and wide and exhibited their work in international contexts. In moving like nomads and responding to globalization while concomitantly addressing local social and political issues, the exhibiting artists jump indeed. And like the audience of Aesop’s protagonist, we are riveted by the stories they tell us; but the tales they share are not transmitted orally as they are embodied in their artworks.