EVENTS
Conversation with Kendell Geers
07/07/2010
Conversation among Kendell Geers, Cuauhtémoc Medina y Pedro Ortuño
7th of July 2010. 8.00 p.m.
CENDEAC, Murcia
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Kendel Geers
May 1968, Johannesburg, South Africa. Lives and works in Brussels
With his works, Kendell Geers explores the geographic, linguistic, political, sexual and psychological
limits and borders of man. His work connects with the revolutionary spirit of socio-political protests
from the late 1960s and is plagued with provocative borrowings of symbols from popular culture like
the skull, images culled from porn mags, etc.
He frequently dissects the violence and hypocrisy of the white middle class South African in works
denouncing the apartheid system in South Africa. Despite having experienced it himself first hand,
his installations invite us to adapt our own position to racism, offering choice options and inviting us
to reflect on the decisions adopted, which are later extended to other social conflicts today.
The balance between attraction and repulsion comes with the choice of ethical themes and an
attempt to speak to the sensibility, a feature which, to his way of thinking, has been lost in art today,
which does not raise its sights beyond the material.
The artist takes violence and sexuality and brings them to an extreme point in order to challenge the
spectator. This provocative attitude confronts the public with a series of routine visual codes and
exhibits them with a radicalness that touches the spectator’s nerve of moral principles.
Kendell Geers willl participate at PAC 2010, in the proyect Dominó Canibal (Cannibal Domino) curated by Cuauhtémoc Medica. His exhibition, at Sala Verónicas in Murcia, will be open from 9th of July at 8.00 p.m.
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