Exhibition

Jaime Lauriano: Why Don't You Know About Western Remains?

18 Jan 2024 – 9 Mar 2024

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10:00 – 18:00
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10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
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10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
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Nara Roesler New York is pleased to present Why don't you know about Western remains?, Jaime Lauriano's first solo exhibition in the United States, curated by Igor Simões.

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The show brings together around ten works, including paintings, sculptures, and a video, which are recent developments in the artist's research and developed mainly over the last year. 

With its title taken from the first verse of the song For Lennon e McCartney by Milton Nascimento, the exhibition focuses on works that examine the formation of the imaginary of Brazilian society. From a decolonial perspective, Lauriano addresses current issues, always taking into account the past of Brazilian and Latin American societies, founded on colonial exploitation and slavery, exposing a deeply violent and unequal contemporary reality. In order to poetically understand this historical conjuncture, the artist revisits visual elements that have helped create this situation, ranging from great Brazilian art paintings to widely circulated everyday images, many of which are seemingly "harmless," like toys and stickers, but implicitly carry a huge burden of historical violence.

In his pictorial works, the artist inserts various elements from popular visuality onto the canvas, ranging from colonial images to those associated with Afro-Brazilian religions. Through these works, Jaime Lauriano operates a kind of re-signification, with elements such as the word “Axé”, or sacred figures like the Preto Velho², acting against colonial violence and bringing spiritual protection.  

Also featured are some recent works of a cartographic nature. Maps are a widely used element in the process of invading and scrutinizing subordinate territories. In these works, however, the artist makes these maps using pemba, a chalk used in Afro-Brazilian religious territories. He inserts territories and names associated with historical cartography into his maps, and at the same time, includes objects and visual signs associated with colonialism, racism, and contemporary violence. 

CuratorsToggle

Igor Simões

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Jaime Lauriano

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