About the Project.

TMR organizes the first DETOUR section of Art021 Shanghai. Titled Lived Worlds, the section moves beyond the exhausted paradigms of trade and exchange that have come to shape our understanding of the Pacific Rim region to highlight the daily realities of people who reside there. Not interested in advancing a dichotomy of global vs. local, the section attempts to shed light on embodied forms of belonging and new kinds of regionalism forged through the intimate and quotidian legacies of cultural contact. At the heart of this section is an attempt to grasp, if only briefly, what Irit Rogoff has described as a formless state of connectedness between people. The section will aim to show how ancestral knowledge forms, non-textual forms of inscription, human and other-than human relationships, natural and built environments, and systems of value and belief have been impacted by the global turn but not fully defined by it. What emerges from the work in the section is a human story across oceans—a set of interwoven narratives about people whose ways of being and knowing cannot be reduced to discourses of exchange.

The section’s core is a focused selection of gallery booth presentations. These monographic and small group exhibits function like a series of portraits that ground the complexities of the Pacific Rim through embodied, quotidian, and intimate perspectives. They feature work by some of the most promising and under-recognized artistic voices in the region. Providing a lens into the anchoring ideas that shape the broader geopolitical forces informing the lives of people in the region, the accompanying video section brings together works organized in five sections: Accounts, Environs, Reverie, Beings, and Contacts. Lastly, in collaboration with Art021, the section will also stage a conversation between some participating gallerists moderated by TMR Executive and Artistic Director César García-Alvarez.

Gallery Presentations

Bank (Shanghai, China)

Catriona Jeffries (Vancouver, CA)

Ghebaly Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)

joségarcía, mx (Mexico City, Mexico)

Páramo (Guadalajara, Mexico)

Shulamit Nazarian (Los Angeles, CA) 

Video Program

Liat Yossifor

A Body of Water, 2016

00:17:26 mins.

Courtesy of the artist and PATRON Gallery, Chicago

Patty Chang

Invocation of a Wandering Lake, 2016

00:12:00 mins.

Courtesy of the artist and Bank, Shanghai

Simone Forti

Solo No. 1, 1974

00:18:40 mins.

Courtesy of the artist and The Box, Los Angeles

Fernando Palma Rodriguez

Si no fuera por esos momentos, 2000

00:08:48 mins.

Courtesy of the artist and GAGA, Mexico City and Los Angeles

Oscar Murillo

Ramón, how was trade today, enjoy the food, but you’re not welcome at this table, 2013

00:28:09 mins.

Courtesy of the artist

Thao Nguyen Phan

Mekong Mechanical, 2012

00:18:32 mins.

Courtesy of the artist

Maria Taniguchi

Untitled (Celestial Motors), 2012

00:06:32 mins.

Courtesy of the artist and and SILVERLENS, Manila

Xin Shen

Warm Spell, 2018

00:34:00 mins.

Courtesy of the artist

Los Jaichackers (Julio Cesar Morales &  Eamon Ore-Giron)

Subterranean Homesick Cumbia Remix, 2014-2017

00:17:11 mins.

Courtesy of the artists

The Propeller Group

The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music, 2014

00:21:15 mins.

Courtesy of the artists and James Cohen Gallery, New York

Paul Pfieffer

Incarnator, 2018

00:27:16 mins.

Courtesy of the artist