Andrés HareSouvenirs
Cachimbo wood, glass and copper
78.7 x 99.1 x 16.5 cm
2017

Ishmael Randall Weeks graduated from Bard College in 2000 and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. His work has been exhibited in various museums both in Peru and internationally, including Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, England, United Kingdom; MoMA P.S.1, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lima, Peru; Culture Center of Buenos Aires (CCBBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; The Drawing Center, New York, United States; Museum of Art of Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru; Macro Museum | Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy; Museum of the Nation, Lima, Peru; The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, United States; Museum of the Bank of the Republic, Bogotá, Colombia; The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Bologna, Italy; The Drawing Room, London, United Kingdom; Museum of Fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico; the Bronx Museum, New York, United States; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States. His work has also been included in the 10th edition of Havana Biennial, the 9th edition of the Bineal Foundation of Cuenca, the 6th edition of (S) Files Biennial in El Museo del Barrio, New York; It is part of the Dublin Contemporary in the National Gallery of Ireland.

In addition, he has received numerous associations, residences and awards from various institutions, including the most recent at the MACRO Museum I Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, Italy; Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York; NYFA, New York; Art Matters, New York; Kiosko, Santa Cruz, Bolivia; and La Curtiduria art center in Oaxaca, Mexico. Randall Weeks is represented by Federica Schiavo Gallery (Rome-Italy), Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City-Mexico) and Revolver Galería (Lima, Peru and Buenos Aires, Argentina).

One of the most widespread contemporary discursive constructions, suggests that everyday life is presented in an absence of judgments about the facts, the way in which they occur and their consequences. It is proposed then that the constant is inscribed in the present that technology becomes impossible to a large extent. However, it can be said, with some certainty, that it is precisely these ideas about the present, the unfocused, the readings, the interest and the future. It is in this place where the work of Ishmael Randall Weeks is located. What IRW proposes, through the use of multiple resources taken from sciences such as archeology, is a perspective that seems to double the points in history about themselves; Establishing a contact between the most remote past and a future that is not fulfilled as presentive as definitive.