The installation Hunted, 2015, which was
part of the
exhibition Hope, Terror, Promise, Rage: Contemporary Perspectives on the Past at the Old Montana Prison Complex in Deerlodge, Montana is included in the article which compiles and
analyzes the various recent
exhibitions that have been presented in a prison setting.
Invented in secret in the privacy
of Oiticica's New York loft in the early 1970s, they were not shown as works
of art until 1992, twelve years after Oiticica's death, when the first and third in the series — CC1 Trashiscapes and CC3 Maileryn — were exhibited as
part of the first traveling retrospective
of the artist's work.3 Prior to that
exhibition, Oiticica's New York sojourn was little
analyzed due to the perceived paucity
of his artistic production between the years 1970 and 1978.4 The 1992 presentation
of the Cosmococas was revelatory in this regard: not only did these quasi-cinemas demonstrate the continuity and conceptual elaboration
of key aesthetic concerns within Oiticica's work (the vertiginous passage from painterly to narcotic «pigment» in service
of the sensorial is surely the most striking
of these animating threads), they indicated the artist's pointed engagement with the avant - garde artistic culture
of New York.
Agar is a Spanish curator based at MARCO Vigo, where she recently curated Entering the work,
part of a cycle
of exhibitions including artists such as Wilfredo Prieto and Rubén Grilo that
analyze the condition
of the public as an integral
part of the artwork.