Antarctica: Lucy + Jorge Orta

For over eighteen years the work of Lucy and Jorge Orta has tirelessly investigated the global phenomena—migrations, humanitarian and environmental crises, urban decay—and reflected on some of the most urgent themes of the contemporary condition, from the end of traditional communities to new hypotheses of social cohesion, from immigration to sustainable development, ecology and intercultural dialogue. In a path marked by performances, group actions, production of objects, workshops, prototypes, publications and design projects, the Ortas have coherently interpreted a political conception of art that directly confronts social and humanitarian issues through strategies of critique and action, awareness and intervention, simultaneously implemented in both symbolic and real space.
The hard-back monograph publication Antarctica (Electa Mondadori, 2008), has been published to coincide with the exhibition under the same title at the Hangar Bicocca contemporary art in Milan (April – June 2008) and takes as a starting point one of the artists’ most important bodies of work, Antarctic Village - No Borders (2007).

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