Pan-Americas
Curated by Arlan Londoño
With works by Pablo Helguera, Eugenio Salas, and Beehive Collective
University of Toronto Art Centre
April 1 – April 17, 2010
Opening: April 1, 6 to 9 pm
Artists Talk: Thursday April 8th, 6:30 to 8 pm
Image Credit: Beehive Collective, Plan Colombia, 2002.
Courtesy the Artists.
Pan-Americas examines the political, economic, colonialist, and post-colonial ideas that underlie the dream of integration and communication as proposed by the Panamerican Highway between Alaska, in North America, to the bottom of South America, through three activist, contemporary art projects. The School of Panamerican Unrest by Pablo Helguera is the result of a road trip taken along the Panamerican highway to gather information on connection and interaction from the people he encountered. Toronto-based artist Eugenio Salas’s architectural intervention titled Tunnel, suggests the use of coyote tactics of human smugglers to create encounters with cultural communities or socio-cultural subjects. He presents the tunnel, the smuggler’s work environment, as a metaphor. Ultimately, Tunnel confronts audiences with themselves and with the space, prompting improvisation and random encounters. The work of the Beehive is a collection of images and stories gathered on their journeys between North and South Americas. Started as a critical approach to the way globalized corporations establish themselves within Latin American countries, the artists invited people to describe their problems and share their stories that are then incorporated into the artists’ evolving drawings and image collages. Functioning as an archive, the project makes the idea of Panamericanism real.
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