Friday, 21 December 2018
7:30-9pm
Proyecto AMIL
Lima
For the second edition of AMIL- Art Sessions, the artist Fátima Rodrigo will present Karaoke Maldito; a video installation that takes up aesthetic elements of the informal transport vehicles that fill the deficit of publicly regulated transportation in the city of Lima; to recreate a karaoke where the audience is invited to sing songs to the rhythm of the most popular musical genre in Latin America today: reggaeton.
Composed of fragments found and specially selected by the artist in a forum called morbocombi.com, the lyrics of these songs are testimonies of abuse against women on the urban transport system, described in detail and with complacency. In this way, the songs that sound like reggaeton hits reveal themselves as open statements about sexual pleasure understood from a violent and patriarchal perspective.
With a dark sense of humour, in Karaoke Maldito, Rodrigo makes visible how the culture of entertainment is a cornerstone in the normalization and socialization of the misogyny and violence against women that is reality in contemporary Lima.
AMIL- Art Sessions is a series of monthly encounters at Proyecto AMIL aimed to expand artistic and curatorial practice beyond the temporal and spatial limitations of exhibition making. Throughout this series Proyecto AMIL seeks to promote alternative ways to talk and experience contemporary art; as well as create a platform for exchange between artists, curators, researchers and our local audience.
Fátima Rodrigo (Lima, 1987) studied visual arts at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. In 2017 she was awarded the Beca Mundiat Flora ars+natura (Bogotá) and in 2018, she took part of Gasworks residency program (London). Her most recent solo shows include: Lo que un día fue No será, Livia Benavides – 80M2 Gallery (Lima, 2018); Mala Mujer, Valenzuela Klenner Gallery (Bogotá, 2018); Geometría Sentimental, Lucía de la Puente Gallery (Lima, 2016); UNAP,Many Studios, Glasgow International Festival (Glasgow, 2016); Otras Tardes, Garúa (Lima, 2015); and Romántico Elegante, Ricardo Palma Cultural Centre (Lima, 2013). She has taken part in numerous group exhibitions, such as: Los nuevos sensibles, Matucana 100 (Santiago de Chile, 2018); Concurso de Arte Contemporáneo, ICPNA (Lima, 2018); Ciber Café, Amazonas Shopping Centre, Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlín, 2017); Feminicidio: ¡Ni una menos!, Memory and Reconciliation Centre (Bogotá,2017);Muere 100, Valenzuela Klenner Gallery (Bogotá, 2017); KM 55, Bienal Sur (Buenos Aires, 2017); Legado y Divergencia, ICPNA (Lima, 2017); Espejo negro, elefante blanco, El cuarto de máquinas (Mexico City, 2017);Aló Teresa, Bisagra (Lima, 2016); among others.
