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Raul Ortega Ayala |
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Babel Fat Tower, 2009, Fat, bones, lights, table (Ikea Billsta), 70 cm height table 74x118 cm Babel Fat Tower, 2009, Fat, bones, lights, table (Ikea Billsta), 70 cm height table 74x118 cm The Last Supper, 2010, Installation View Stroom Den Haag, photo courtesey Stroom Den Haag Tomatina / Tim (still) , 2010, Two channel wall projection, 14:41 min Photo courtesey Stroom Den Haag Tomatina / Tim (still) , 2010, Two channel wall projection, 14:41 min Photo courtesey Stroom Den Haag
Babel Fat Tower, 2009, Fat, bones, lights, table (Ikea Billsta), 70 cm height table 74x118 cm
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Raul Ortega Ayala’s
(1973, Mexico)work is the result of immersions into different
environments, which he purposefully seeks to experience through research
or observation for an extended period of time. Ortega Ayala approaches
each subject matter using a certain methodology, predominantly an
ethnographic approach (as a participant observer). He approaches a
context with as little predetermined knowledge of its ‘craft’ as
possible and seeks to learn it via taking employment and training in the
field in question, or by means of research. At AKINCI Ortega Ayala has
shown a replica of Pieter Brueghel’s (1563) Babel Tower he made with fat
in order to constitute a coherent metaphor of our times. In general the
Tower of Bable can function as the eternal ruin, symbolizing
development, human hubris and decay all at once. The Tower of Bable
built of fat can be seen as a metaphor of transformation. In
Ruins recycled
Ortega Ayala
presented his new video work of an architect, a historian and an
archaeologist. E.g. a historian talking in front of a site of something
that happened in that spot, an archaeologist speaking in front of a
building about another building that used to be in that place and a
person walking the artist around a house talking about people he or she
knew…
Raul Ortega Ayala studied at the
Glasgow School of Arts and at the Hunter College in New York. He also
studied Philosophy and Visual Arts at the National Autonomous University
of Mexico. Ortega Ayala’s projects have been shown worldwide: 2008/9 Una
Etnografia sobre la Jardinaería’, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico
City; 2010 a project at Kowalsky Gallery, DACS, London curated by Gilane
Tawadros, selected by Francis Al˙s. His recent solo show was at Stroom
The Hague, Netherlands (2010). Raul Ortega Ayala is represented by
Rockeby, London. |
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