Culture Publication
Jose Carlos Garcia Oliva
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About Work
Kero beaker, from Peru; Inca. 14th cent. Acquisition date by the British Museum: 1987. British Museum description: Cylindrical burial urn or kero beaker made of wood, with flared side, incised decoration including figures, and traces of paint. This work depicts the presence of the object in use as opposed to the on display. The objects are a reflection of our existence and a sample of how we interact with our environment. If such a object rich with stories is robbed of its habitat and its use it is erased, later to be catalogued in a museum and finish its history as a piece among thousands of others. Does this object continue to make sense as a historical piece? And who is in charge of telling its story? //
Artist
Jose Carlos Garcia Oliva is an artist born in Venezuela in 1995. Having grown up between Europe and South America, his work has been immersed in a constant comparison between these two cultures and its coexistent. His practice and research have as a subject of studying the intermediate spaces that are generated in emigration/immigration, the liminality, the interrelation between people and their context, always taking into account the interaction of the viewer with the work itself as a form of linking. Oliva has a degree in Fine Arts (Hons) in Madrid at Rey Juan Carlos University. Jose Oliva is currently doing a Master in Visual Communication at the Royal College of Art.
