I Use Perfume to Occupy More Space at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil
More Space
October 7 – January 3
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil
Av. Revolución 1608
San Ángel
01000, México, D.F
55 50 62 60
55 50 39 83 ext. 120
http://www.museodeartecarrillogil.com
This exhibition approaches the institutional space in a self-critical manner. With the purpose of reviewing the social mechanisms that generate the belief in the value of artistic creation, I Use Perfume to Occupy More Space intersperses commercial products, theoretical and literature tomes, films, cartoons, works from the MACG collection, and other contemporary artworks. Such a grouping reveals the use of artistic references in advertising to endorse and characterize commercial products and insert these in the worlds of fashion, politics, and social life in general. These records are scrutinized through artistic projects that question such a legitimization mechanism, as well as the inherent vanity of the art-world system.
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