{"id":11124,"date":"2024-09-01T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/?p=11124"},"modified":"2024-10-01T13:54:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T11:54:39","slug":"santiago-mostyn-language-against-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skaneskonst.se\/en\/santiago-mostyn-language-against-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiago Mostyn: Language Against Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Santiago Mostyn: Language Against Identity
\n28.09\u201327.10
\nVernissage: 27 Sept, 18.00\u201323.00
\nMalm\u00f6 Gallery Weekend: 27\u201329 Sept<\/strong><\/p>\n

Welcome to the opening of our autumn exhibition!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sk\u00e5nes konstf\u00f6rening proudly presents Language Against Identity, a solo exhibition by artist Santiago Mostyn. The exhibition comprises video, painting and installation, offering an immersive experience where boundaries between the immaterial and material are blurred.\u00a0<\/span>Mostyn uses the language of images in an attempt to understand how they carry, extend and challenge established history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Central to the exhibition is the eponymous visual essay <\/span>Language Against Identity <\/span><\/i>(2024) which will be shown in Sweden for the first time. It begins with a sentence, the soft turning of a page, then silence. What soon follows are the whispers of the bush \u2014 birds chirping, the scorching breeze, and insects rustling in the savanna grass. Then, a full descent into a treacherous historical tale of exploitation, destruction, and extinction.<\/span><\/p>\n

The video traces the effects of geographic and cultural displacement by focusing on two case studies of animals that were forcibly taken away from southern Africa and put on display in northern Europe. <\/span>The first is that of Bibi, a female elephant born in Zimbabwe in the mid-1980s, who was shipped to the GDR as a baby and still lives in captivity in Germany. The second is a museum collection of African birds housed in the small town of V\u00e4nersborg. The birds were captured by a Swedish settler in South West Africa in the late 1800s, and have been on continuous display for about 120 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through meticulous observation, archival research, and critical intervention, Mostyn unravels narrative strands that metaphorically reflect the turbulent relationship between Europe and Africa, as well as his personal connection to these geographies. He emphasises this through repetition, close-focus perspective, the remaking of paintings by the late Swedish painter Axel Eriksson (1878\u20131924), and found images that appear in gradual crescendo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Language Against Identity contrasts the vibrant beauty of flora and fauna with the stark realities of colonialism and its dire, lasting effects.<\/span><\/p>\n

About the artist
\n<\/strong>Santiago Mostyn\u2019s practice foregrounds narrative entanglements in pursuit of new understandings of place, both in a cultural and psychic sense. Mostyn has long been\u00a0interested in the interplay of music, narrative and the embodied self, with works manifesting as films, exhibitions and curatorial projects.<\/p>\n

Mostyn received a B.A. from Yale University and M.A. from the Royal Institute of Art,\u00a0<\/span>Stockholm. Recent exhibitions include After the Sun at Buffalo AKG Art Museum (2024), The <\/span>Threshold is a Prism at Kulturhuset, Stockholm (2023), Mare Amoris \/ Sea of Love at <\/span>Queensland Art Museum, Meanjin\/Brisbane (2023) and Dream One at S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje Konsthall, <\/span>S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje (2022). He was a resident at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2022, and is a fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 2024-2025. Together with artist Susanna Jablonski, he has been recently commissioned by the City of Malm\u00f6 to create an anti-racist monument, which will be erected in the second half of 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n

Curator: Tawanda Appiah<\/span><\/p>\n

Image: Santiago Mostyn, <\/span>Language Against Identity<\/span><\/i>, video still, 2024.
\n<\/span>Courtesy of the artist and Andr\u00e9hn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Paris. The video was partly commissioned by Buffalo AKG Art Museum.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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