Alejandro Cesarco, Learning the Language by Agnès Violeau
Monday, December 10, 2018 at 19:00
Maison de l’Amérique latine
Alejandro Cesarco was born in 1975 in Montevideo, Uruguay, and lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions: “Song,” Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (2017); “Prescribe the Symptom,” Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2015); “Secondary Revision,” Frac Île-de-France/Le Plateau, Paris (2014). Alejandro Cesarco is part of the curatorial team of the 2018 São Paulo Biennial, “Affective Affinities” (2018).
Agnès Violeau is an independent exhibition curator and art critic. Her research focuses in particular on how exhibitions are made and on linguistic territories. In 2018, she curated the Satellite 11 program at the Jeu de Paume, which brings digital writing and its interactions with the official language “Newspeak” or “doublespeak” imagined by George Orwell in his novel 1984 into correspondence.