Thursday 21 November
5pm–7:30pm: film screening
7:30pm: conversation with Jorge Villacorta
Proyecto AMIL
Lima
Within the framework of Colapso gravitatorio, a solo show by the artist Yoshua Okón, Proyecto AMIL is pleased to invite you to the screening of Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), the last movie by the famous Italian film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, followed by a conversation with curator Jorge Villacorta.
Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom is one of the most controversial films in the history of cinema. Released posthumously and set in Mussolini’s Italy, it tells the story of a group of young people who are captured and locked in a mansion to satisfy the most perverse desires of four omnipotent and corrupt characters.
The film is one of the most important references of Saló Island (2013), a sculptural video installation that constitutes one of the central pieces Colapso gravitatorio. After the screening, curator Jorge Villacorta will build bridges between the fascist Italy that Pasolini portrays in the film, the ultra-conservative right-wing turn that characterizes the contemporary world political scenario and the incisive criticism of the neoliberal capitalist system that runs through Okón’s work.
Admission is free. The film is suggested for older than 18 years.
Jorge Villacorta (Lima, 1958) is an art critic and independent curator. He studied genetics at the University of York, Great Britain. He wrote art criticism in Oiga (1989-1993); Página Libre (1990); the Arts and Letters supplement of El Mundo (1994-1995); and Lundero, cultural supplement of the Chiclayo La Industria (1991-2004). He co-curated the exhibition Documentos – tres décadas de Fotografía en el Perú 1960-1990, at the Museo de Arte de Lima in 1997. More recently, he co-curated Urbe & Arte. Imaginarios de Lima en Transformación 1980-2005 (25 years of visual arts, architecture and music in Lima). He was the curator of the anthological exhibitions of Peruvian artists such as, Alina Canziani and Esther Vainstein; and of the deceased José Tola, Cristina Gálvez and Julia Codesido. Between 2014 and 2015 he was part of the curatorial team responsible for the permanent exhibition of the Lugar de la Memoria, la Tolerancia y la Inclusión Social (LUM). His most recent project was the exhibition Inteligencia salvaje. La contraesfera pública 1979-2019, panoramic show co-curated with Issela Ccoyllo, that made visible forty years of counterculture in Lima on the axis of the work of Peruvian artist Herbert Rodríguez. The Ministry of Culture of Peru appointed him Meritorious Personality of Culture in 2013.
