Ana Torfs
Subtitle: espacio oscuro donde no pueden ponerse las cosas = Dark space where things cannot be put
By: [textos, texts : Verónica Gerber Bicecci [and others] ; dirección editorial = editorial direction : Ekaterina Álvarez, Ana Xanic Lópex, Vanesa López]]
Contributors: Lópex, Vanesa, editor; Xanic Lópex, Ana, editor; Álvarez Romero, Ekaterina, editor; Gerber Bicecci, Verónica, 1981- writer of added text; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo
Edition: First edition.
Series: Folio MUAC -- 087; Folio MUAC -- 087.
Publisher: MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM; Editorial RM
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Ciudad de Mexico
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9788417975906; 9786073049511
Subjects: Exhibitions; Criticism and interpretation; Belgium Art; Installations (Art)
Other titles: Dark space where things cannot be put; Espacio oscuro donde no pueden ponerse las cosas
Work titles: Works
Description: The first monographic exhibition dedicated to the work of Ana Torfs (Belgium 1963) in America. From the dialectic between image and text, the artist's work delves into the act of perception to investigate the implicit historical conventions that accompany it. In his production, Torfs explores the dichotomy between what we visualize and what we know or think we know. Beyond a taxonomic process of ordering and classifying reality, the artist investigates the very conformation of knowledge that arises from the language and colonial structures that are derived. References as diverse as psychology, shadow theatre, literature, sign language, botany or travel logs serve to deepen language as a hegemonic structure and to propose a fabric of relationships that permeate our experience.
Notes: "Published on occasion of the exhibition Dark space where things cannot be put. (October 1, 2021 to February 27, 2022) MUAC, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo. UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City."--Colophon.

Texts in Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Palabras prestadas = Borrowed words / Virginia Roy Luzarraga; title: Periplo: veintiséis reflexiones peripatéticas en torno a "The Parrot & the Nightingale, a Phantasmagoria" = Periplo: twenty-six peripatetic reflections on "The Parrot & the Nightingale, a Phantasmagoria" / Ana Torfs; title: Dobla, dobla, trabaja y afan... Veintidos senderos que se bifurcan hacia "Incantations" (Double Double) = Double, double, toil and trouble... Twenty-two forking paths towards "Incantations" (Double Double) / Ana Torfs; title: Susurro, pantomima, escritura: voz = Whisper, mime, writing : voice / Verónica Gerber Bicecci; title: Semblanza = Biographical sketch; title: Catálogo = Catalog.