Track 16 at Rosalux

TRACK 16 at ROSALUX in BERLIN

Didn’t you know what you were carrying on your back?
curated by Sean Meredith

OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, June 7th at 5pm
Francisco de Goya
Didn't you know what you were carrying on your back?, 1812 - 1814.
Wash, brush, bistre, grey-brown ink, black chalk lines on laid paper.
This June, twenty art spaces from Los Angeles will be exhibiting with spaces in Berlin as part of an international exchange. TRACK 16 will be exhibiting at ROSALUX, who hold "the transformative potential of art and humanism" as one of their core principals.

The title of the exhibition is borrowed from Goya’s drawing called Didn’t you know what you were carrying on your back? which pictures a rotund Dominican friar pleasantly sitting on the back of a peasant working in a field. Each of the artists included is driven to make works that explore the personal and collective baggage that weighs on human existence. The weight of experiences and histories adds depth and meaning to our lives, but – like a fat friar – too much baggage becomes oppression. It is the obsession of these artists to make meaning of this oppression, to express the inexpressible, and to encode what can’t be spoken.

Artists: Debra Broz, John Collins, Marsian De Lellis, Georganne Deen, Adrienne DeVine, Simone Gad, Janie Geiser, Samantha Harrison, Kathleen Henderson, Laura Heit, Mondongo, Elyse Pignolet, Laurie Steelink, Camilla Taylor, Noa Yekutieli, and Liz Young


Exhibition runs from June 8 to 23, 2019
Thursday - Saturday 2-6 pm and by appointment

On Monday, June 10th B-LA's Tour 3 will be a walking tour of five exhibition spaces including Rosalux.


rosalux – the Berlin-based art space
Wriezener Straße 12
13359 Berlin


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