[spectre] Evidentiary Realism on Investigative, Forensic, and Documentary Art. Curating an exhibition in NYC. Press Release.

[Paolo Cirio]

I'm delighted to present the first version of *Evidentiary Realism* with
historical, established and emerging artists and thinkers featured in an
exhibition in NYC from Feb 28th.


*Evidentiary Realism is a platform featuring artists engaged in
Investigative, Forensic, and Documentary art practices.*
Everything is on the website: http://EvidentiaryRealism.net

It aims to articulate a particular form of realism in art that portrays and
reveals evidence from complex social systems, with prioritizing formal
aspects of visual language and mediums. The truth-seeking artworks featured
explore the notion of evidence and its modes of representation.

First artists selected:
*Nora Al-Badri & Jan Nikolai Nelles, Amy Balkin, Josh Begley, James Bridle,
Ingrid Burrington, Harun Farocki, Hans Haacke, Thomas Keenan & Eyal
Weizman, Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Mark Lombardi, Kirsten Stolle, Suzanne
Treister.*
Curated and organized by *Paolo Cirio*.

The first version of *Evidentiary Realism* exhibition is presented by NOME
Gallery + Fridman Gallery in NYC.
February 28 – March 31, 2017. At 287 Spring St, New York, NY 10013.
Artists talk moderated by *Hrag Vartanian* and opening 5-9pm on Feb. 28th


*Evidentiary Realism* reflects on post-9/11 geopolitics, increasing
economic inequalities, the erosion of civil rights, and environmental
disasters. It builds on the renewed appreciation of the exposure of truth
in the context of the cases of WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden, the Panama
Papers, and the recent efforts to contend with the post-factual era.

Contemporary sharing and processing of information in an open global
collaborative environment entails an amplified sense of reality. Leaks,
discoveries, and facts are collectively verified and disseminated among
numerous distribution networks. Techniques of presentation and engaging the
public have been evolving in the same direction—through reconfiguration of
media and languages, the evidence is presented in a variety of strategies
and artifacts in dialogue with contemporary art practices.

*Evidentiary Realism* focuses on artworks that prioritize formal aspects of
visual language and mediums; diverging from journalism and reportage, they
strive to provoke visual pleasure and emotional responses. In the
exhibition the evidence is presented through photography, film, drawing,
painting, and sculpture, with strong references to art history. In
particular, these artists also theoretically articulate the aesthetic,
social, and documentary functions of their mediums in relation to the
subject matter they investigate.

Some of the evidentiary realist works break down visibility to abstraction
to underline the limits of seeing, while others use figuration or synthesis
to enhance insight. The encoded information and nuanced details behind the
works point to large, highly complex realities that come into focus through
the factual evidence shown. Yet these enigmatic and seductive works serve
as evidence of the opaque and intricate apparatus of our reality.

The process of translating investigations and documents into artworks
underpins the exhibition. Such practices adopted by emerging and
established artists of today can be traced to the works of Hans Haacke,
Mark Lombardi, and Harun Farocki, who were some of the first artists
invested in decoding complex systems of power and conveying them in bold
artistic forms.

The creation of evidentiary artworks is the realism of today's world, which
is trying to control, predict, and quantify itself. Evidentiary realists
examine such complexity to condemn, document, and inform through compelling
artworks, giving form to a particular documentary and investigative art
practice.




*Concept and text by Paolo Cirio. 2016-2017.Everything is on the
website:http://EvidentiaryRealism.net <http://EvidentiaryRealism.net>*

Thanks for your interest.
Paolo.

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