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CRISTINA GARRIDO



SELECTED WORKS
· Colored
· The Best Job in the World
· Booth Exhibitions are the Institutions of our Time
· Local Colour is a Foreign Invention
· The (Invisible) Art of Documenting Art
· The Copyist
· Risk Management Paintings 
· Boothworks 
· Best Booths
· Tote Bag Paintings
· Aerial photography does not create space but registers surfaces
· The Social Life of `Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt)´
· An Unholy Alliance
· #JWIITMTESDSA?
· They are these or they may be others
· THIS IS ART NOW VOL.1
· TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
 · Veil of Invisibility
· Symptom






Boothworks

2017
Single-channel digital video HD, black and white, sound, 16:9,
13´27"
[Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Collection / ARCO Award for Young Artists 2018/ MACBA Collection]









´The increasing institutional interest in boothwork practices that mobilized the gallery as a discursive narrative demanded an intensive physical mobilization of the galleries to create works in various cities throughout the cosmopolitan art world. Gallerists were traveling more than ever to fulfill boothworks in situ. The extent of this mobilization of the gallery radically redefined the commodity status of the artwork, the nature of artistic authorship, and the art-site relationship.´

Boothworks is a fictional documentary in which a voice off describes, from an uncertain future, an international art form consolidating around the 2010´s. This new art form, carried out by the gallerists of the time, took the gallery booth as an artistic medium and the art fair as its exhibition space. Booth art, as the narrator calls it, was nomadic, portable, `anti-gallery´, ephemeral, performative, site-specific and attempted to resist commodification… However, the narrator problematizes this challenging art form questioning its relationship to capitalism, its social impact, the shift of focus from the art object to its context, the institutional and curatorial aims that promoted these practices and how the figure of the art critic became unnecessary under these new circumstances.
The text is a collage entirely composed by edited quotes from well-known art critics, curators, art historians, artists and other artistic agents speaking about conceptual, site-specific, performative, ephemeral art practices from the 60´s and 70´s, such as Lucy Lippard, Miwon Kwon, Germano Celant, Helen Molesworth, Seth Siegelaub or Joseph Kosuth, amongst others.
The visual part of the video was configured by editing video documentation from art fairs and other art events found on the Internet, in platforms such as Vernissage TV. 

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