Dora García
The Joycean Society
Punch Space
Giudecca 800/o, Venice
The Joycean Society
Dora Garcia is the winner of the Fondation Prince Pierre of Monaco’s International Prize for Contemporary Art (PIAC), for her work, The Deviant Majority (2010), nominated by curator Agustin Perez Rubio. For 2013, Garcia proposes to produce a new work, The Joycean Society (2012-2013), that she considers as the third in a series. This artwork (video installation) is inspired by reading groups and literary clubs, notably those who meet regularly to read the works of James Joyce out loud. In this work, the artist observes and documents moments where members of a community try to understand a literary language in relationship to the narratives and stories that writing translates.
Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco presents The Joycean Society, a new artistic project by Dora Garcia, winner of its International Contemporary Art Prize (PIAC). The Joycean Society is a film about a book club dedicated to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, a society made up of students, admirers and connoisseurs of what is often said to be "the most difficult book in the world". Dora Garcia explores in this project the relationship between the reality of the readers' experience, perception and the fictions this reality refers to. Conceived as an intervention that turns the exhibition space into a space of interpretation, invites visitors to use all their senses of perception as readers, listeners and viewers, to live an experience in which the artistic subject is affected by the object of the artwork and by its translation on many different levels. This project is in line with Dora Garcia's conceptual approach, a method that leads the artist to collaborate with groups of intellectual activity practitioners who work on the boundaries of the understanding of language and on their effects in the field of fiction.
Artist:
Dora García
Open: Thursday, 30 May 2013
Close: Sunday, 24 November 2013
Address: Punch Space
Giudecca 800/o, Venice
Web: Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco
Opening hour: 1 - 7pm
Closing day: Mon
Transport: Line 4.1, 4.2, Palanca
Photo credits: Courtesy of Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco
