Opening: “I Want to Know” | Yam Gallery

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  • You are welcome to join us for the opening of I WANT TO KNOW, the new exhibition by Mexican artist Ignacio Rodríguez Bach in YAM Gallery.

    opening / cocktail:
    Thursday, July 19 2018 YAM Gallery Instituto Allende, Ancha de San Antonio 20, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico +52 415 150 6052 info@yamgallery.com
    7pm


    >>>>>> More about the artist and the exhibition
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    I.R. Bach applied to the Art + Technology Lab program to examine and mimic a mysterious encounter he experienced while camping in the mountains surrounding the Valley of Mexico. The first component of the project consisted of fieldwork; Bach made multiple expeditions into the backcountry outside of Mexico City to investigate the appearance of strange flashing lights that spontaneously appeared in the mountains. For the second component, the artist planned to stage a performance with mirrors in Los Angeles’ eastern hills to create a triangular light drawing that visitors could view from the balcony of LACMA’s Broad Contemporary Art Museum building. While undertaking these sections, Bach expanded his investigation to encompass a variety of separate yet related unexplained phenomena. A large portion of Bach’s grant went towards photo-surveillance equipment, including a camera drone and a low light camera. Instead of employing these tools to explain the phenomenon, the artist achieved results that heightened the experience of the unknown. Bach does this without speculating on the nature of the phenomenon’s existence. This, he leaves up to the viewer. His artistic investigations do not lead to theories or answers, but rather seek to initiate a sense of discovery and a state of wonder.
    Joel Ferree, Program Director, Art + Technology Lab, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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    I.R. Bach’s project I want to know is an homage to this profound and contradictory human endeavor “knowing”. His discovery and documentation of these precious luminous entities, present us with a powerful paradox. As art, the dancing lights of the mountain captured by the sophisticated lens of the low light camera are precious gems of the night: volatile, immaterial, deeply spiritual in all their blooming colors.  As documents, that is, as photographic evidence of an inexplicable phenomenon, they become defiant of everything modern science allows us to believe. Hence the importance of the title I want to know.  Do we judge true knowledge as something that comes from experience? Do we believe knowledge is a process? Can we accept that deeply seeing, carefully observing, reviling, uncovering, documenting through photography is a valid enough method? Can we question our own materialistic biases when confronted with the images Bach brings to us from the mountain? Can we understand his conundrum before a discovery of such magnitude? Imagine being the artist as he makes the decision to document and explain the series of mystifying, beautiful lights that emerge and disappear on their own accord from a massive volcano crater in the Valley of Mexico. Wouldn’t you also want to know? (…)
    Diana Magaloni, Deputy Director, Program Director and Dr. Virginia Fields Curator of the Art of the Ancient Americas

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