Exhibitions
The IVAM is transformed with the works of Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger
The Valencian museum exhibits more than thirty works by the two artists.
The Valencian Institute of Modern Art explores the work of Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger and does so with a fifty-year journey of the artistic tandem. The exhibition, curated by Lucia Aspesi and Nuria Enguita, explores the practices of the two African-American artists from the 1970s to the present day.
Vital and artistic relationship of the two female artists with an important trace of Dadaism and Surrealism contrasted with Minimalism, exploring the performative dimension of the body, dance and sculptural objects, with sixteen pieces by Nengudi and nineteen by Hassinger. An exhibition that can be visited until November 2 and covers years of collaboration between the Chicago and Los Angeles artists, specifically when they were members of Studio Z in the city of California.
Exposició Senga Nengudi i Maren Hassinger, cortesia IVAM
In the 1970s, this spontaneous collective of creators and artists originated with the aim of creating a space where African-American artists could express themselves freely and support each other. The exhibition is built from videos, sculptures, installations, photographs and texts that will range from 1969 to 2014.
The question of chronology is, precisely, key to understanding this way of inhabiting the museum, which involves reconfiguring several of its projects to adapt them to both the space and the current context.
Exposició Senga Nengudi i Maren Hassinger, cortesia IVAM
At the IVAM, well-known pieces of the artistic duo are combined with other lesser-known, almost new pieces, along with different site-specifics adapted to the Valencian museum. This exhibition path will also be a vital and artistic relationship between Senga Nengudi and Maren Hassinger over time, creating and establishing dialogues with traces, footprints, echoes between shared singular paths.
The exhibition does not aim to create a binary work, but rather to find a way to talk about the references they had. Senga Nengudi focuses her work more on the avant-garde, political identities or rituals, Maren Hassinger is committed to minimalism and post-minimalism, sharing the work of body performance. Without following a chronological thread, it is articulated through five areas, taking the starting point with two short texts by the artists written in 2000.
The exhibition also explores the artists' interest in "collaborative formats." Both were co-authors and appeared in each other's performances on numerous occasions. Alongside the works of Senga and Maren, the exhibition plays videos by Barbara McCollough and Ulysses Jenkins - two filmmakers close to them - that document forms of collaborative action from the 1970s and 1980s.
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