El Desvío , No Detour
Works by Jacobo Zambrano. Opening reception: Sep 11th, 8pm. Avenue - 165 E. Hastings, Vancouver, BC Text by Matías Armendaris. "It has been time of international hybridization and cultural confetti aesthetics for a while. We love the rarities of the foreign migrating voices and the display before our eyes of the grim reality of the unlucky; it makes us all more aware and sensitive. Yeah you can observe with no guilt, it is playful and pure aesthetic. It is for you to enjoy the entertaining peculiarities, so savoury, so exquisite. There is no room for guilt or need for it, as this might be for you and all, our safe space – your safe space, our release – your release. Oh we have it good – you have it good. So recursive and ingenious, the simpler life. You can look, we can laugh, it’s recognizable: - “I've seen that video on YouTube” - “I heard they do that so people don’t break in”. I recognize that. I think I get what's going on. Formally is very pleasing: - “I really like the attention to detail, the light, the floor, it almost feels like we are somewhere else”. I think it looks a little different from what I've seen in the city, it’s kind of risqué. Like, - what are we supposed to make out of it, we don't know much about, where is he from again? - Oh, cool, South America. What I like is the colours, and the materials; I really want to see this in photographs.... Como las aves en primavera, los colores del plumaje son clave en el momento de sobresalir como el mejor candidato para el apareamiento. La danza y los sonidos se mezclan en un pasticho de rasgos exóticos, solo aquel más dispuesto logrará tener el fruto de su deseo, aquel que marque las diferencias. El truco es solo el escenario, la caja es para tí. En el territorio de fronteras, el desvío lo marco yo con mis pasos, dejo las huellas en los caminos culebreros que rodean las montañas. El rastro lo marco, mirando de costado hacia atrás, atento a que me siguen y a medio camino el desvío ya no es mío, sino suyo. Ésta caja no es mía, es tuya, aunque estemos aquí juntos y la caja la hayas traído tu." Jacobo Zambrano is a Venezuelan artist living and working in Vancouver, BC. Practicing outside his native country, Zambrano is interested in discourses around geography, both materially and theoretically. In particular, the desire to question historical structures such as identity and culture which often results in a critique of the notion of the other. By querying the politics of geography, peripheral perspectives -often historically excluded- distinguish themselves as significant voices to be heard through material translation. Zambrano holds a BFA and a minor in Curatorial Studies from Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
