Installation
© Dora García. Photo: M HKA
Collection: Courtesy ProjecteSD, Barcelona.
In the installation, García references Albert Camus' famous novel The Plague from 1947. In the book, the disease appears as an allegory of the scourge of misfortune in all its forms: totalitarianism, fascism, war, the deprivation of freedom that leads to exile – and is also a non-metaphoric study of a community afflicted by an infectious disease, something we can very much relate to now. The work expands Camus' narrative to touch on colonialism (Camus' plague happens in Algeria) and consists of several elements: a chart (Mapping the Plague), a diagram drawn on the floor, several study drawings, and a performance that activates the floor drawing (The Drawing on the Floor: A Monologue).
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> Exhibition: She Has Many Names . M HKA, Antwerp, 10 February 2023 - 21 May 2023.
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>Dora García, The Drawing on The Floor, 2018.Performance.
>Dora García, The Plague Annotated , 2018.Drawing, graphite and pencil on paper laid down on canvas , 330 x 371cm.
>Dora García, Mapping The Plague, 2018.Other, chart made of photographic reproductions, handwritten texts, and annotated copies in english and french of the plague (camus, 1947).
>Dora García, The Drawing on the Floor: A Monologue, 2018.Performance.