12 September 2010 – 9 January 2011
PROJECT ROOM @ AQUARIUM
FRANCISCO CAMACHO - ENTKUNSTUNG DE L'ART
Artist residency: 12 September – 29 October 2010
Exhibition: 30 October 2010 – 9 January 2011


For the autumn residency Casino Luxembourg invited Columbian artist Francisco Camacho (Bogota, 1979; lives and works in Amsterdam). Francisco Camacho’s work is situated at the crossroads of political performance and social analysis. As a politically engaged artist, he is particularly interested in identity related concerns of his host country. In collaboration with soldiers from the Luxembourg Ecole de l’Armée (military school), the statements of six leading figures from the local economic, cultural, political and religious realms have been “deconstructed” according to a particular method of analysis. As for the local hiphop group de läb, they summed up the interviews in their very own style in the song Den Dag vun der oppener Dier (Open day) which, through using the metaphor of a house, unveils the Grand Duchy’s hidden facettes.

The project realised by Francisco Camacho was presented in the “Aquarium” of Casino Luxembourg from 30 October 2010 – 9 January 2011 in an environment mixing rap, graffiti and a video installation.

The publication on the project Entkunstung de l'art contains texts by Kevin Muhlen and Emmanuel Lambion.

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