February 24 – 28, 2021
2021년 2월 24일 – 28일
M Gallery, CICA Museum
I work to document my studio practice, expanding it into various post-production stages. The resulting materials are a repository of tropes. The process itself has informed my practice by employing digital imaging to assimilate other media, developing a critique of current practices of hybridization in contemporary art. In doing this I explore aspects of Art´s relative autonomy yet polymorphic nature.
My research examines to what extent the growth of the art industry and the support of contemporary “radical practices” and “innovation” are in fact a by-product of financial/political agendas as well as to what degree activist practices become another genre coopted and/or mediated by the former.
My work considers actor-network theory, e.g., Latour, and strategic-tactic theories, e.g., Certeau, along with other sources and other media developments in relation to audience expectations, examining how they shape collective understanding and consensus. I primarily work at the intersection of art, social science, and economics in the context of new media, studying the dissemination of “expanded” contemporary art practices and their heterogeneous activities.
Ultimately, I’m researching to what extent the growth of the art industry and the increasing support of revisionist, disruptive practices occurs as part of the development of new schemes and new policies that seek to retool traditional activist/countercultural practices as a repository of institutional tropes.
Alejandro Loureiro Lorenzo is a visual artist and an independent researcher based in New York. His current investigation is focused on the development of open, experimental approaches involving photographic surfaces.
Alejandro Loureiro Lorenzo, “Untitled” (2020-2021)