During a two-month period in partnership with Dimensions Variable (DV), visual artist Francisco Maso will loan five photographs from the Obtuse Exercises for Dissenting Bodies series to interested individuals in Miami-Dade County who request one for display in their home. Through this art on-loan program, he wants to provide an avenue for the public to experience a physical interaction with the selected artwork while broadening the discussion around the exhibition as an in-progress, open-ended system of relationships.
Posing the question Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home? Maso asks the borrowers to identify a location in their home where a political art piece could be displayed while investigating the dynamics of consumption, reception, and circulation of political art within the current social context of a pandemic and uprisings.
Obtuse Exercises for Dissenting Bodies is a political art project oriented toward the research of positions assumed by dissident bodies in their relation with the police state. These positions are exercises based on the violent movements that take place in scenes of confrontation between the political forces of power and resistance groups of civil society.
Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home? is a project conceived and curated by Francisco Maso.
To organize this project in partnership with your museum, gallery, or contemporary art center, send a request.
Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home? ©Dimensions Variable. Courtesy of Dimensions Variable.
Obtuse Exercises for Dissenting Bodies series, 2018-ongoing. Photography. © Francisco Maso. Archival FineArt print on Hahnemühle Hemp paper. 19 x 15 in. Special Edition for Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home? Courtesy of the artist and Archivo Art Studio.
