- Reflective red tape
- Drawings on two facing walls
- Exhibition: Social Security
- INP, Social Security Institute, Santiago, Chile
- June-July 1998
- Curator: Ana María Fernández
- Muro Sur Gallery
Ana María Fernández
The INP has opened its doors to ten young artists who will present their works made especially for this opportunity. The incorporation of contemporary art in a public service space establishes a novel relationship between creative and social management. The works of art, located outside their most usual places, come into contact with an office space, which has its own dynamics and characteristics. In this sense, the exhibition "Social Security" is an unprecedented project for Chile. "The works have been carefully thought out for the space where they will be exhibited, where an important group of people work on a daily basis. Each artist knows that his or her work will coexist with INP employees -who are not necessarily connoisseurs of avant-garde art- during the days of the exhibition. Therefore, in each work there is a gesture of visual and conceptual challenge, but also of respect for those who will be its most immediate recipients," explains Ricardo Cuadros. All the works that make up this exhibition have in common the focus on "procedures". This means that they are works that in some way highlight their own way of developing and appearing. They are shown in their process, making their "incompleteness" notorious. They require, therefore, an active spectator, willing to participate, to complete the reading of the works.