Liliana Porter: Actualidades / Breaking News will feature a video and a small selection of photographs by the artist that explore the news as a stage in which politics, spectacle, and everyday life collide. The video uses the structure of the newspaper through transitional headings, such as “Arts and Leisure,” “Fashion and Style,” and “World News,” and a dramatic score to string together “situations” that are humorous, tragic, or even banal. The disparate vignettes, staged in otherwise nondescript settings, break with ideas of linear time and narrative, offering disjoined scenarios that resonate with the dramas and absurdities of human life across history and geography.
Liliana Porter: Actualidades / Breaking News is on view at the San Jose Museum of Art from July 28 2023 - February 25 2024.
