Manuel Piña-Baldoquín
b. in La Habana, Cuba, 1958. lives and works in Vancouver.
Manuel Piña-Baldoquín is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts at UBC. His photographs and video pieces often depict urban spaces as a departure point for narratives concerning social issues. He is interested in the relationships between power, utopias, history, and the city as both site and embodiment of these relationships. His work has been exhibited in the Americas and Europe including the Havana Biennale, the Estambul Biennale, Kunsthalle Vienna, Grey Gallery, N.Y., LACMA, U.S.A., DAROS Museum, Zurich.
The initial premise of this exhibition involved (potentially endless) playlists of YouTube and Vimeo videos generated by their respective algorithms; a sequence of all the images ever posted to Instagram, Facebook and other social media and, lastly, an endless scroll of Giphy.com homepage. The result would be an infinite collage, a collectively-authored, ever evolving Image with contributions across the Globe, a true Image of the Present.
What would such Image reflect from us?
What would it reveal about what we are today?
Where is the hope, the truth of the world?
What is, at last, going on?
While Anything and Everything's Possible, that initial idea proved a daunting task thus Piña has opted for a mere snapshot: an algorithm-generated curation of YouTube videos, and his own contributions to such collective creation.
The initial premise of this exhibition involved (potentially endless) playlists of YouTube and Vimeo videos generated by their respective algorithms; a sequence of all the images ever posted to Instagram, Facebook and other social media and, lastly, an endless scroll of Giphy.com homepage. The result would be an infinite collage, a collectively-authored, ever evolving Image with contributions across the Globe, a true Image of the Present.
What would such Image reflect from us?
What would it reveal about what we are today?
Where is the hope, the truth of the world?
What is, at last, going on?
While Anything and Everything's Possible, that initial idea proved a daunting task thus Piña has opted for a mere snapshot: an algorithm-generated curation of YouTube videos, and his own contributions to such collective creation.
Installation view of Manuel Piña After All
Past Institutional Exhibitions:
Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago
MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART
LONG BEACH | CALIFORNIA | USA
SEP 16,2017 - JAN 28,2018
Condemned to be Modern
LOS ANGELES MUNICIPAL ART GALLERY
LOS FELIZ | LOS ANGELES | CALIFORNIA | USA
SEP 10,2017 - JAN 28,2018
Adiós Utopia: Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950
WALKER ART CENTER
MINNEAPOLIS | MINNESOTA | USA
NOV 11,2017 - MAR 18,2018
Cuba and The Bahamas. Contemporary Art from the Caribbean
HALLE 14
LEIPZIG | GERMANY
APR 29,2017 - AUG 06,2017
Ficción y Fantasía – Art from Cuba
DAROS EXHIBITIONS, LATINAMERICA
ZÜRICH | SWITZERLAND
SEP 11,2015 - DEC 13,2015
Beyond the Supersquare
BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS
BRONX | NEW YORK | USA
MAY 01,2014 - JAN 11,2015
Manuel Piña: Like a Dirty Joke or an Angel
MARVELLI GALLERY
CHELSEA | NEW YORK | USA
NOV 03,2011 - DEC 17,2011
Changing the Focus: Latin American Photography (1990-2005)
MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART
LONG BEACH | CALIFORNIA | USA
FEB 13,2010 - MAY 02,2010
Available Works
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