Beatriz Santiago Muñoz

Marché Salomon, 2015

November 03 to 08

Marché Salomon (15’56) follows the routine of two young workers in a busy Port-au-Prince open-air market, Marché Salomon. The youngsters embark on a conversation about the potential mystical proprieties of the products sold in the Haitian market while performing their daily tasks as meat vendors. The characters physically interact with objects in search of something else: “The only living things are the flies!”, One of them says at some point after waggling a goat’s head. We thought about this work in response to Miguel Calderón’s Camaleón because both films depart from specific characters to build social portraits revealing a particular context without recurring to stereotypes. Beatriz’s camera, like Miguel Calderon’s, moves slowly and deeply investigates their subjects’ surroundings and peripheral elements while we hear their stories and digressions. Both films are rich entanglements of places, personalities, history, and time.

Selected by Pivô, São Paulo.

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is an artist based in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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A River Waits Reply

A screening series developed in partnership between seven international arts organizations, A River Waits Reply presents moving-image works from around the world as a poetic reply to this unprecedented year. It is a year that has invited new forms of exchange at a distance, and a long-overdue reckoning with deep social and political inequity that calls for new forms of solidarity. All seven institutions will simultaneously host each video on their websites for the duration of one week, with the series as a whole extending over seven weeks in total. Each work has been selected by a partner organisation as a response to the videos that preceded it, producing a cascading sequence and a winding river of thought, interpreted through the aesthetic and social values of their respective cultural context.

The title of the series is borrowed from a poem by Emily Dickinson.

Artists

(in order of appearance)

Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz
Ria Pacquée
Miguel Calderón
Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
David Hartt
Martha Atienza
Pooja Gurung & Bibhusan Basnet

Collaborators

Argos, Brussels
Gasworks, London
Kadist, SF & Paris
MOCA Toronto
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
Para Site, Hong Kong
Pivô, São Paulo