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January 1-March 31, 2012
Mexican Artist Gustavo Gomez’s residency is supported by the Jumex Foundation. His work focuses on learning, understanding, and using the structures and epistemic tools of other branches of knowledge in order to generate objects and concepts that explore nature, matter and perception phenomena.His interests have developed into trying to create a hybrid between the knowledge of science and art that shaped his thinking process.
Interdisciplinary Artist
Writer, visual and video artist, Valérie Mréjen seeks out ways to evoke the strange emptiness behind our words through manipulation of dialogue in videos that present images from everyday life and relationships.
She is the author of three books: She wrote Mon grand-père in 1999, which she followed with the photography exhibit L’Appartement de Mon Grand-Pere in 2000; in 2001 she wrote the autobiographical novel L’agrume concerning the loneliness of love, which received the Second Novel Prize in France that year; and Eau Sauvage, written in 2004. She was asked to make a film about contemporary life in Tel Aviv and presented Pork and Milk at an art gallery there in 2002.
Valérie Mréjen presented Filmed portraits (14 memories), a series she started at 18th Street Art Center in Santa Monica (2001) to answer the self-posed question: how do you make someone’s portrait? She wanted to capture the surprise of the first glance, while scrutinizing this landscape we call L.A. By filming people in a context familiar to them (both indoors and outdoors), she extracted a story from the footage of their memories.
Interdisciplinary Artist
Interdisciplinary artist Ming-Sheng Lee says that his art explores the human tendency to develop rapidly. His artistic career began in the late 1970’s. In his endeavors, he tries to understand what art means to ordinary people. He creates installation, photographic, sculptural, and performance works shown over the last twenty years in Taiwan, Japan, Germany, France and Italy: and performed “Fire Ball or Circle,” as the first-ever artist to represent Taiwan at the 1993 Venice Biennale. Lee’s work is often considered controversial in Taiwan because of its direct references to the socio-political problems of the country, which was under martial law until the 1980’s. While in residence at 18th Street Arts Complex, Lee created and presented the installation: “My Art,” featuring bloodstained images from Lee’s various visual and performance artworks produced over the last two decades. Another of his acclaimed performance installation works, “Immanent Cry of Human from Depth of the Earth,” showed in Taiwan, Japan, and at 18th Street (2001). The piece featured a roomful of cylinders, each issuing a unique sound to create a sound collage invoking organic, primal emotions into the context of contemporary culture. Another work: “Money You/You Money,” features dozens of images from Lee’s 20-year artistic career, painted over with traces of the artist’s own blood, strewn on the floor of the space along with dollar bills, cardboard boxes, and remnants of a 12-course dinner, served up as a piquant performance art event.
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