Liliana Porter: “Situaciones”

September 3rd – October 2nd of 2009

It is an honor for Casas Riegner Gallery to present the recent works of the Argentinian-born, New York based artist Liliana Porter. The show consists of seven small installations made of wooden objects and figurines. Each of them works as a small self-contained universe, where a playful arrangement of scales and materials teases the viewer.

Liliana Porter has been recognized for her detail-oriented creation of peculiar images, where humour plays an important role in order to potentialize the simplicity of the work. This simple and clear language in the pieces points out to the artist’s concerns, her fascination for the poetic dislocations of space/time, for the ability of the artistic practice to articulate distant times and ideas into objects.

From the mid-nineties on, the artist has been using small toys and figurines, which have become the usual protagonists of her work. These act as subjects of confrontations and dialogues, where times get blurred or superimposed. In these confrontations, wordplay is a key element, as the artist twists the meanings of each object by the way she names them. By many different plays of perception in Porter’s work, the viewer is involved in particular microcosms filled with humour and subtle joy.

Liliana Porter is one of the outstanding names in contemporary latinamerican art. Her work is part of important public and private collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum and MOMA in New York, the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, the Latinamerican Art Museum of Buenos Aires, and the Daros Collection in Zurich. In 2009, Porter has had solo shows at the Museo Tamayo in México City, at the Galería Ruth Benzacar in Buenos Aires and at Brenau University in Georgia. In 2005 she presented at Galería Casas Riegner the solo show titled Diálogo con tetera y otros encuentros.

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