All progressive art protests the dominance of what has gone before‎. Staged incidents and riveting imagery evoke pressures and tensions with the vividness of‎ dreams and nightmares in POWERS SEEN AND UNSEEN [Poderes visibles e invisibles]. This international selection of recent moving image art, curated by Washington-based guest curator of Global Visions, Kelly Gordon, that highlights an array of‎ distinctive artistic strategies. Each cultivates awareness of “forces,” visible, invisible, exterior and interior. The exhibition designer is Gaëlle Smits.

Can the world change in two minutes? Héctor Zamora’s O Abuso da História reveals a wild art performance that feels like it could be an odd, spontaneous protest riot. Various camera angles survey an elegant, old world Latin American colonial-vintage courtyard. Suddenly, large potted plants rain down, hurled from its windows. These crash to bits upon impact, remaining both living and near dead. The finale surveys the ambiguous wreckage while viewers experience a reflex to want to see all 120 seconds of the video all over again.

On April 14, we enjoyed the presence of Kelly Gordon in two key spaces for the study and experimentation of contemporary Venezuelan art: Hacienda La Trinidad Parque Cultural and Centro de Arte Los Galpones. We began the afternoon with the «Best of Best» workshop, imparted by the curator in charge of our year-long program Global | … |

The evolution of cinema, video and new media in the context of visual arts has long been imminent, not only by their progressive occupancy of exhibition spaces, but because of the contents contemporary artists are choosing to explore in their works. The diversity and complexity of moving image art, along with its ongoing moment in contemporary | … |

«Global Visions: Insights into International Moving Image Art» is a year-long program unfolding throughout 2016, comprising exhibitions, talks, workshops and screenings in Caracas and Maracaibo, and aiming to explore our contemporary relationship with moving image art from an international perspective.