Alejandro Cesarco April 30, 2010

Alejandro Cesarco, 32, from Uruguay, challenges viewers to seek new meaning behind the texts and images of his works. His diverse projects, consisting of photographs, videos, books and sculpture, address his recurrent interests in repetition, narrative and the practices of reading and translating. With a strong interest in collaboration, he also works as a curator and editor at New York's Art Resources Transfer/A.R.T. Press. His exhibition at Artpace will for the first time unite the different components of a body of work entitled Index (2000-2008). Consisting of an alphabetized list of terms and ideas arranged as if indexing a specific publication, the works are half way biographical and half way theoretical. They are extremely personal, at times even hermetic, yet full of cliches. The exhibition will also present a new film commissioned for the occasion. Entitled The Two Stories, it consists of the reading and telling of a story, with the two narratives overlapping one another. This will be the artist's first solo museum exhibition.