Placebos
- Jorge Pineda's Individual Exhibition dedicated to Marianne Tolentino
- Curator: Sara Hermann.
- Centro Cultural España
- Collaboration: Lucy García
Does art have its own territory that deserves to be defended as such? This is how Boris Groys begins his logic of aesthetic rights. Assuming the answer is affirmative, the question that would follow would be: What is this territory then? In times when artistic production can offer numerous responses to current and contingent phenomena, it is important to highlight the breadth of these territories. Jorge Pineda's work has followed different paths of critical reflection whose fundamental axes lie in the condition and totality of human experience. The drama of the depredation of the environment (natural and social spheres) is the center of his concerns and therefore one of the routes that his discourse takes. Each piece then alludes to a type of looting, from that which points to environmental deterioration, to that which suggests interpersonal violence or social inequalities. Just as euphemism disguises the word but not the intentions, placebos lack therapeutic action, but produce therapeutic effects. In this way and in this case, artistic discourse, although it does not supplant political action, unfailingly catalyzes and directs it. Substitute solutions, ineffective repairs to critical situations are the focus of this set of works, whose pieces of resistance serve as a turning point to direct our reflections as participants in the aesthetic fact. In this sense, beyond aestheticizing the positions of questioning reality, these pieces suggest and point out them.
— Sara Herman.
Jorge Pineda
Jorge Pineda was born in Barahona, Dominican Republic. He studied the first years of Architecture at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo. He worked in graphic design, standing out in the creation of Posters, winning several national and international awards. He has participated in the Venice Biennale, the Havana Biennale, the Lima Biennale, the Cuenca Biennale. He has won the Installation and Drawing prize at the E. León Jimenes Biennial and the Installation prize at the National Biennial of Visual Arts in the Dominican Republic. His work is found in the following collections: Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León, MUSAC; Valencian Institute of Modern Art IVAM; Museum of Contemporary Art of Salamanca, Da2; Museum of Contemporary Art of Murcia; The Cisneros Collection. Lives and works in Santo Domingo.
Placebos is an exploration of themes related to the individual's attitude when facing reality. How he reinvents her to eliminate the anguish that accepting them causes her. Starting with this a neurotic process that is inscribed in the collective space. The lie and the truth become the same thing, knowing that they are not.
In Placebos a dialogue is established with nature and the ephemerality of beauty, with the edge as creator of parallel worlds, of the loneliness generated by hyper-individualization, with our conveniently unconscious separation from the values that were preached to us daily and the their complicity with the practice of double standards... in short, the traps of faith.
