Title: thierry alet Price: $2500 Medium: photograph (digital) Description:

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ANTHRO/SOCIO anthro/socio curated by raul zamudio the:artist:network is pleased to announce the exhibition anthro/socio. the exhibition explores two narrative trajectories that split into a myriad of thematic strands. one is the polarity between anthro, with its greek root meaning "man," and socio, which is derived from the latin and means "companion." both are prefixes to numerous words that underlie a subtext of the show: what does it mean to address such things as the anthropology or the sociology of art, for example, as divergent perspectives on artistic practice that traditionally stemmed from a study of two historically variegated forms of social community? the anthropology of art refers to the visual culture of so-called "primitive" or underdeveloped society, while the other connotes urbanity and its art forms that run the gamut from "fine art" to "low culture" and all things in between. the latter's division of artistic practice into "high" and "low" has presumably been a marker of societal complexity. yet, as the exhibition makes quite clear, this type of polarization of culture and society is confronted by a whole new set of criteria produced by the changing dynamics of globalization. as the international influx of populations move to any given city, urban space itself becomes increasingly inundated with a diversity of cultures from all walks of life consequently making the anthropology/sociology delineation exceedingly implausible. other dichotomies are also explored in the exhibition that highlights this problematic: organic/synthetic, nurture/culture, virtual space/reality, native/foreigner, and self/other. the other reference to the show comes from bruce nauman's 1992 installation titled "anthro/socio." the installation is a multi-channel video work projected on walls as well as displayed on monitors and consists of a face that screams: "feed me, eat me, anthropology ... help me, hurt me, sociology ... feed me, help me, eat me, hurt me."

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Alessandro Balte... projects multimedia 1508	thierry alet projects photograph (digital) 2337	duncan anderson projects drawing 1299	duncan anderson projects drawing 1668	duncan anderson projects drawing 1286	oreet ashery projects photograph (film) 1262
oreet shery projects photograph (film) 1165	dahlia elsayed projects drawing 1121	andrea frank projects photograph (digital) 1000	andrea frank projects photograph (digital) 1016	erika harrsch projects photograph (digital) 1220	scott lifshutz projects painting 1147
scott lifshutz projects multimedia 1106	scott lifshutz projects multimedia 1341	ferran martin projects multimedia 1104	alfredo martinez projects drawing 1363	emma mccagg projects drawing 1314	emma mccagg projects drawing 1346
yasira nun projects photograph (digital) 1394	rikko sakkenen projects drawing 1225	rikko sakkenen projects drawing 1253	rikko sakkenen projects drawing 1235	sari tervaniemi projects photograph (digital) 1182	liselot van der ... projects photograph (digital) 1231
liselot van der ... projects photograph (digital) 1053	andrew dermijian projects multimedia 1162

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