May 1—June 13, 2015

Spiral Forest (kingdom of all the animals and all the beast is my name) Daniel Steegmann Mangrané

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Rotating Table 1, 2015 Mirrored-finish polished stainless steel disc, motor, control unit, electric wire, tree branch, tripod The horizontal surface recall scientists work spaces but also display tables for specimen. With its technical, mechanical and organic components, the work brings together major concerns of the artist. Spiral Forest (1-11), 2015 (detail; wall) 6 Fiber-based gelatin silver prints, 5 analog C-prints This body of work draws on the notion of Amerindian Perspectivism, a term developed by the anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro to describe indigenous cosmologies that assume the world to be inhabited by different beings, animal and human animal, who perceive reality from distinct points of view of which none is privileged. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Press Release

Esther Schipper is pleased to present Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's first solo exhibition with the gallery. Entitled Spiral Forest (kingdom of all the animals and all the beasts is my name), the exhibition includes Steegmann Mangrané’s newest film Spiral Forest, an immersive 3-D environment with the title Phantom, as well as a series of photographs that all take as point of departure the same location in the Mata Atlântica rainforest in Brazil, a densely leafed underbrush...