| Abi Lazkoz September 10 - October 16, 2005 |
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Abi Lazkoz (Bilbao, 1972) has created a site-specific project for the Laboratorio 987 of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León entitled, Esconde la mano. The title has multiple connotations in itself related to the exact meaning of the Spanish saying that talks about "throwing the stone and hiding the hand" and as a metaphor that refers to the idea that, as the artist explains: "the normality of the individual is not only necessary but obligatory: one has to learn to shut up, learn to smile, learn to manifest one's self, learn to give birth, learn to be different (...) It is advised to live without making much noise neither to be bad (if you throw the stone, hide your hand) nor to be good (even if you don't throw the stone, hide your hand), etc." . In this way, Abi Lazkoz offers scenes where huge figures created with black lines on a white background appear, using a language similar to comics. To reflect basically on (her) the surrounding reality.
The work of Abigail Lazkoz reflects on political or social reality and gender roles through a drawing structure close to the world of graphic vignette, establishing questions on the spectator themselves that have to be revealed upon going beyond what drawing, apparently simple, offers at first glance. As such, the titles of the majority of her works&usually phrases&clarify part of the meaning.
Beyond the simplicity of her strokes and the monumentality of her mural drawings hides a deep reflection on the world in which we live in. Even political and gender questions have most of the time been fundamental parts of the works of this artist. The drawings of Abigail Lazkoz intend to establish an approach to the crude reality in which we live in from an apparently simple perspective&struggle, tears, pain, etc&in such a way that behind its simple front, some social and political re-establishments worthy of the best contemporary social analysts are hidden. She introduces disconcerting elements through floral motifs and decorations that go unnoticed upon a first reading but that later on reveals the real meaning of their composition.
The drawing done on white walls and the actions undertaken by her characters are perceived as part of our social reality. The construction of huge scenographies through the use of mural drawing assumes the spectator, converting him into an active part of the work.
Esconde la mano thus reflects on a question that defines, in great part, adult behavior of a part of our society, which means, as Abigail Lazkoz notes: - the learning of continuous movement is something like teaching survival classes through the dissimulation that is inherited from parents to children, definitely, learning to integrate.�
Short Biographical Note
Abigail Lazkoz (Bilbao, 1972). Graduate of Fine Arts from the Universidad del País Vasco. She has participated in International Biennials and has collaborated with different national and international galleries. She currently lives and works in Bilbao and New York. She was recently one of the selected artists for the exhibition, Greater New York, at the PS1-MOMA in New York.
Laboratorio 987, project room of MUSAC
Laboratorio 987, a project room for site-specific artistic projects is an adjoining space that functions independently from the general program of the museum. The first artist to exhibit in this space was Silvia Prada (Ponferrada, 1969) with the site-specific project Hot or Not, which ran from April to May 2005. This project was followed by a video exhibition by Fikret Atay (Batman, Turkey, 1976) under the title Sonidos Lejanos/Distant Sounds. Tania Pardo is the curator and program coordinator of Laboratorio 987 for the years 2005-2006. |
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