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Florilegio, group show at Dancing Elephant Projects
June 25 – August 1, 2010
Bogota, Colombia
Curatorial Text
The planet collects bits and pieces of life. Each organism, plant and person leaves a vestige of what once was their existence and often, a new beginning for something or someone else. Biodiversity builds that possibility by giving energy to every corner of the earth; it nurtures, adorns and produces a large ecosystem of plants, rivers, animals and roots that are responsible for keeping the circle of life alive.
Six of the ten most biodiverse countries in the world can be found in Latin America, one being Colombia, who remains second in the world and owns 10% of the planet's biological diversity. These figures tell us about the countless value of our continent, including much of the balance of the global atmosphere, but also, of the great responsibility we have to care for it.
Dancing Elephant Projects' first exhibit, Florilegio, is like the earth, a collection: an anthology of works of art and perspectives about the world that focus on biodiversity. A pack of animals, plants, sceneries, and critical sensibilities that have crossed local and foreign borders to lay down their path, hoping that beauty, abstraction, and reality mean the beginning of a personal consciousness towards the biological greatness of the planet and the importance of being part of positive change.
A rabbit asleep, an albatross violently impacted by pollution, a tiger walking towards a faceless woman, seas of jellyfish, or an anteater seeking to be colored are some images that are part of the compendium to celebrate 2010 as International Year of Biodiversity, declared by the UN to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the global convention on biological diversity.
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Jet Lag at Mina Dresden Gallery May 16 - June 13 2009
Exhibition by MEI.collectiv
Exhibition Dates: May 16- June 13 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16, 6-9pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, June 13, 2-6pm
Gallery Hours: By Appointment
MEI.collectiv www.meicollectiv.com
Location: Mina Dresden Gallery, 312 Valencia @ 14th street, San Francisco, CA 94103 www.minadresden.com
jet lag
“a condition that is characterized by various psychological and physiological effects (as fatigue and irritability), occurs following long flight through several time zones, and probably results from disruption of circadian rhythms in the human body.” [Merriam Webster Dictionary Online]
Jet Lag is a MEI.collectiv exhibition by Jessica Resmond (France, US) and Jorge Bachmann (Colombia, Switzerland) with the participation of neuropsychologist Sabine Gysens (Belgium). Jet Lag is a multi-media project that uses metaphors from both the air travel experience and neurosciences to investigate social and biological networks. This new installation includes sculptures, digital photography, sound and video by the MEI.collectiv, as well as pictures, videos and sounds emailed by friends and acquaintances from around the world.
Jet Lag addresses the simultaneous freedom and confinement experienced when traveling across time zones. It draws our attention to the strange and suspended “familiarity” of transient spaces and unfamiliar skies, to the forced intimacy of airport security scans and the anonymity of international flights.
About MEI.collectiv: MEI.collectiv was founded by Jorge Bachman, Anne Chao, and Jessica Resmond.
Current participants in MEI.collectiv’s project Jetlag include Jorge Bachman, Sabine Gysens and Jessica Resmond.
Jessica Resmond is an artist from Bordeaux, France. She received her BFA in sculpture from California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Jorge Bachmann is a Swiss Colombian multi-disciplinary artist whose work has been shown internationally in Switzerland, Colombia and the US. Sabine Gysens is a neuropsychologist from Belgium with a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University Paris VII, France. She has an interest in art curating and likes to explore the interface between art and science.