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Adriana Arroyo

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Adriana Arroyo (*1981) works across a range of media including installation, photography, sculpture and film. Much of her practice makes reference to geological activity, to reveal possible relationships between the movement of the Earth, politics and the fragility of the body and the mind. 
 

Adriana Arroyo, who was born in San Jose, Costa Rica, was a participant at De Ateliers studio programme in Amsterdam 2011-2013. Her film work has been screened at international festivals including Berlinale, Toronto, Canada, International Film Festival, Oberhausen Short Film Festival and Media City in Ontario, Canada. Recent solo exhibitions include Polytropos: Turning Many Ways, Galerie KM, Berlin, How Much Land Does A Man Need?, Despacio Art Centre, San Jose, Costa Rica, Unstable Strata, Teor/éTica, San Jose, Costa Rica. Her work has been shown as part of group exhibitions at Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Kunstverein in Hamburg, NICC Antwerp, amongst others. In 2015 Adriana Arroyo received the Emerging Artist Award from Teor/éTica, San Jose, Costa Rica.

From April—June 2021, Adriana Arroyo was a resident at the Makroscope – Zentrum für Kunst und Technik.

Xanten

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.

Xanten by Jul Gordon

Black and white illustration of a house with a front yard in Xanten. Text: "We are not talking about work here, we are talking about... front yards."

© Jul Gordon

Hand-drawn illustration of a house entrance with a palm tree and decorative figures. Text: "There is a lot of work here... and very careful work."

© Jul Gordon

Drawing of two lion statues in front of a door with dialogue. Text: "So, I just wanted to say, I won’t set an alarm or anything." – "Why? If something happens...?"

© Jul Gordon

Black and white illustration of a frog with binoculars sitting on a table in front of a door. Text: "Do you remember Simex?"

© Jul Gordon

Artistic drawing with flying birds and a ribbon. Text: "She has become a cat." – "Could we maybe redirect this?"

© Jul Gordon

Hand-drawn illustration of a creative front yard decoration with stacked shapes. Text: "She is really awesome."

© Jul Gordon

Minimalist drawing of a house with a lion figure in front of the door. Text: "And prevent more of this mess."

© Jul Gordon

Critical illustration of an advertising poster with the text "You belong" and a crowd. Text: "E.g. fascism."

© Jul Gordon

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Jul Gordon

Jul Gordon lives in Hamburg and works as a comic artist. In addition to drawing, she curates exhibitions and works as a lecturer at the HAW Hamburg.

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