Nicolas Poggi

Vernacular presents Citizens in the Shade, Aliens in the Sun: Simulacro by Nicolas Poggi on September 10 and 11, at 8pm.

Citizens in the Shade, Aliens in the Sun brings together artists from different regions whose works are concerned with socio-political sensibilities echoed in their own environments. The exhibition emphasises artists’ explorations of narrative forms to describe marginal matters locally and globally, particularly in relation to issues of resistance, labour, exchange and property. 

Presented in two stages, Citizens in the Shade, Aliens in the Sun, includes works by five artists from the Americas, Europe and Asia: Geogina Arizpe, Karolina Bregula, Musquiqui Chihying, Iting Ho and Nicolas Poggi, whose subjects take on transnational relevance.

The title is referenced from a poetic prose written by Raqs Media for supercommunity in 2015. The text conveys a series of doubts on any definition of a fundamental freedom that may mask hidden costs. Departing from these same questions and in response to the current moment of planetary crisis, the exhibition manifests the two or three things we may know about marginalised peoples while acknowledging the inherent distance between their experiences and our own. 

The first stage of Citizens in the Shade, Aliens in the Sun is Simulacro (Simulation), a site specific theatrical performance by Nicolas Poggi. The commissioned piece conducts as a demonstration of the artist’s position that ‘there are no limitations in choreography’. Poggi uses his body to interpret reportage images of protests from around the world, deciphered and instructed by others. This experiment in translating images into a performative act of re-signification in which the artist’s thoughts leads a choreography until the body resists as a physical metaphor from those involved in rebellions on the streets. 

— Vernacular

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