Roberto de la Torre
KAIROS#2
Born in Mexico City in 1967, he lives and works in Mexico City.
Roberto de la Torre works with temporary and contingent elements, his work is usually generated in the public sphere where conceived works not only that involved the visible characteristics of objects, but both the objects and their effects and potential relationships. His ideas are carried out in ephemeral actions, such as sculptures, architectural, sensory experiences and facilities through the use of different media for certain spaces or happenings of collaboration environments with a large number of participants. All in all, his work is a documentation of the transient. The focus of his work ranges from social issues that occur in the local context, as well as in a global context, leading to particular situations. De la Torre reveals an awareness of formal and spatial conditions of the places that takes up in his work, including the effects and relationships that they can raise. A tension between the physical and the intellectual permeates the fabric of their pieces in which the author has developed the notion of "social sculpture" in pieces that involve complex social negotiations, in terms of permissions and participation in each setting.
Roberto de la Torre, Kairos#2
TRÍO ESTRELLA / Motel El Silencio, 2014
Still from the video
Juan José Soto
KAIROS#2
Born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1981, currently lives and works in Mexico City.
Juan Jose Soto studied Visual Arts at at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving "La Esmeralda" at the National Arts Centre in Mexico City (2007-2011). He also obtained a BA in International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City (2001-2006). He has had solo and collective exhibitions mostly in Mexico but also in cities like New York, Manila, Sao Paolo, San Jose, La Paz, Buenos Aires.
Juan José Soto, KAIROS#1
"Without Territory - Survival Blancket", 2014
Alejandro Garcia Contreras
KAIROS#2
Born in Tapachula Chiapas Mexico in 1982.
Alejandro’s work is inspired by contemporary pop culture, Mexican folklore, classical myths, occultism and religions. In his artistic practice, he uses traditional techniques such as stop-motion animation and ceramics with a very personal and artisanal aesthetic in order to explore complex subject matters from short narrative stories.
His works has been presented in United States, Sweden, Spain, Netherlands, Mexico, Canada, England, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan and Peru.
Alejandro Garcia Contreras, KAIROS#2
"JUECES 16:19", 2014
The title is referring to a section of the bible where Delilah after coerced out Samson’s secret of his power, put him to sleep and cut his seven braids of his hair.
Taking place in a Motel called Gala, dedicated to the woman's curves and especially to Dali muse, the erotic ceramic figure of Alejandro is turning on itself, in an obscure and fantastical ambiance where we can wonder if she grasped Samson’ strand of hair of the Kairos’ one.
Marco Aviña
KAIROS#2
Born in Mexico city in 1987, lives and works in Mexico City.
In 2015 he founded LADRÓNgalería, an artist-run space in Mexico city.
MÜkerrem Tuncay
KAIROS#1
Born in Istanbul, lives and works in Lyon, France.
Mükerrem archives time. Her research is linked to the transformations that operate between the past, the present and the future. The narration - which she addresses directly to the viewer - occupies an important place on her works, whether to be photographic, video or sculptural. Her sculptures, transforming day after day, give to the visitor the opportunity to daily experience its developments. With instant mediums like photography and video, she usually exposes "the time that passes at the interior of a transformation. " Always according to her words, she collaborates with plants, animals, bacteria and humans respecting to their own rhythms. Attentive to the time anything needs for its own transformation, she questions about how the living can transform itself physically, chemically and psychologically by its nature.
Her videos have been shown to the Belle de Mai (2014), the Soirée Flare #29 in Languedoc Roussillon Cinéma (Montpellier, 2013), Marathon Video, and at Fil (Saint-Etienne, 2012). She is winner of the Grenoble city prize of 2013 and of the Anna Lindh Foundation in 2009.
Mükerrem Tuncay, KAIROS#1
Installation, 2013
Clémence Prieur
KAIROS#1
Born in 1987, lives and works in Paris.
Her practice, resulting from performance and writing, has a predilection for video and sound mediums. Inspired by literature and film, she questions the representation of
intimacy, especially the relation maintained by the body with its familiar places. She seeks to make visible and audible the discrepancy of time between what is experienced, described and incarnated. To do this, she builds scenarios whose main character are always a woman, thereby couple, desire, love duality themes are often underlying.
She studied at ESAD (Strasbourg) and HEAD (Geneva), before obtaining her DNSEP in 2012. She participated in the video lab of the choreographer Olga Mesa «El lament of Blancaneves» (Frac Sélestat.). Her work has been presented at the opening of the Centre Pomidou Metz, at Centre Pompidou Paris, during Moving forest to London, at the théâtre la Comédie (Saint Etienne), at La Chaufferie (Strasbourg). Moreover, she made a short film about Jacques Demy for the Cinemateque in Paris, many portraits of artists (Chantal Michel, Hervé Charles, Jéremy Gindre and Tony Matelli) for Sélest'art 2011, and edited a documentary about Cape Verdean music.
Clémence Prieur, KAIROS#1
Performance, 2013
Morgane Roumegoux
KAIROS#1
Born in 1984, lives and works in Nice / France.
With the experience of many collective events, combining performance and live broadcasting on various radio stations, Morgane Roumegoux has monopolized the oral act. Interested by language’s architecture, she likes to wander through in order to find its rifts. From a detail at first sight trivial even absurd, she clings to it and never give up, then, she fabulous to give birth to a narration. Inspired by the Dada poetry and its famous manipulation and destruction of language, the artist doesn't hesitate to play with the prose: stuttering, grunt, cry - final climax, are interpreted as the limit of what can be said. She brings out the meaning and sublimes nonsense in response to ambient rationalism. With the use of a panted and unstructured language, she proposes us hypotheses of being, fail communications, false answers, nonsense… sound-images of a voluntary short circuit. Performer in voice, she now focuses on experimenting with this orality through recorded-broadcast, that offer her to open her practice to objects or sound installations whose
animist potential does not lack of power and derision.
She studied at ESAD (Strasbourg) and then get her diploma at Villa Arson (Nice) in 2012. Her work has been presented at the opening of the Centre Pompidou Metz, the Ososphère (Strasbourg), to Citysonic (Mons), the BNA-BBOT and La Centrale (Brussels), or the Chaufferie (Strasbourg). She also had the opportunity to attend a performance of Spartacus Chetwynd at the New Museum (New York). She also
worked with several radio stations such as Radio Panik (Brussels) or Radio en construction (Strasbourg). Currently, she is at the initiative of the «Parade des Êtres Vivants» taking place for the first time in MDAC (Cagnes sur Mer).
Morgane Roumegoux, KAIROS#1
Fantôme de la rue Soufflot, performance, 2013