The tears of things
HELGA DE ALVEAR COLLECTION
Looking at works of art in a collection implies surrounding oneself with « Things » that form part of the universe of another person. Walter Benjamin said that one of the most intimate relationships that can be established with objects is that of possession. That is why working with the photographs and videos of the Helga de Alvear Collection is an act of both voyeurism and complicity.
This selection of photographs and videos from the Helga de Alvear Collection is, evidently, a proposal among the many others that could exist. If art is, above all, a way of creating gazes, The Tears of Things proposes seeing the life of the things represented and, perhaps, comparing it with our own.
Artists
- Ignasi Aballi
- Francis Alys
- Helena Almeida
- Bernd & Hilla Becher
- Anna & Bernhard Blume
- Martin Boyce
- James Casebere
- Hannah Collins
- Thomas Demand
- Stan Douglas
- Fischli & Weiss
- Joan Fontcuberta
- Rodney Graham
- Paul Graham
- Andreas Gursky
- Candida Hoefer
- Jose Antonio Hernandez-Diez
- Gordon Matta-Clark
- Ryuji Miyamoto
- Jorge Molder
- Joao Penalva
- Thomas Ruff
- Ed Ruscha
- Allan Sekula
- Montserrat Soto
- Frank Thiel