Event overview
The Department of Art Public Talks Programme Summer 2017 welcomes artist Falke Pisano.
Falke Pisano works mainly on long-term projects, which she conceives as organised fields of research, production and reflection.
In the publication ‘’Figures of Speech’’ (designed and co-edited by Will Holder, published by JRP-Ringier, Christoph Keller Editions, 2010) Pisano brought together her work focusing on the act of speech in relation to different forms of agency in artistic production. The artist second cycle of works (2011-) “The Body in Crisis” consisted of a series of propositions and inquiries that look at the body in crisis as an ongoing event.
Pisano is interested in how art can play a role in the questioning of the institutions and structures that shape our socio-political and narrative spaces. In her latest series of works, “The value in mathematics”, Pisano examines the often overlooked relationship between culture and mathematics. Through sculptures, texts, diagrams, and videos, she investigates how Western cultural values, such as progress, rationality and universality, have influenced the way we have come to think about mathematics since the early 17th century. While some of the works question the past and present position of ‘advanced mathematics’, others investigate the possibility of the existence of multiple forms of mathematics informed by different cultural values and practices.
The value in mathematics is divided in ten parts; As a whole it leads one in steps along the thought process of the artist, who set out to find an answer to the question “Do there exist multiple mathematics?” and discovers along the way the importance of examining one’s inherited framework of thought.
Pisano’s recent exhibition projects include: The value in mathematics, C3A, Cordoba, 2016, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, 2016, Synagogue de Delme, Delme, 2016, and REDCAT, Los Angeles, 2015, among other locations; The Body in Crisis, The Showroom, London, 2013, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2012 and Vleeshal, Middelburg, 2012, among other locations. She participated in group exhibitions such as the 20th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, 2016; 13th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, 2013; 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, 2009; and Manifesta 7, Trentino, 2008. In 2013 she won the Prix de Rome, the most important Prize for artists under 40 in the Netherlands. She is currently working on the publication of “The value in mathematics” with Will Holder/uh books.
This event is free. No booking is required. All welcome.
Image: 'The value in mathematics (language)', 2015, video still. Courtesy Falke Pisano.
Dates & times
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3 May 2017 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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