| With her drawings and installations New York/Berlin-based artist Julieta Aranda, born 1975 in Mexico City likes to challenge Western ideas of cultural productions such as time, space and language. At the centre of her exploration is the idea of a politicised subjectivity and the power over the imaginary, also reflected in her recent work „There has been a miscalculation”. Aranda arranged some 100 science-fiction novels published between 1870 and 2008 to scrutinise the relationship between speculative fiction and reality. „Since we are living in a time that has already been exhaustively investigated by science-fiction literature and films,” Aranda asks, „how can we make sense of a present that doesn‘t bear any resemblance to the fictionalised image?” artwork „There has been a miscalculation“ (flattened ammunition), 2007 Perspex, wood, laquered steel, Science Fiction novels, compressor 150 x 129 x 129 cm / 59 x 50,8 x 50,8 inches Edition of 3 Courtesy Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin contact Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin www.galeriemichaeljanssen.de |
| Julieta Aranda |
