We caught up with Téllez to talk about his new exhibit, working with mentally ill patients, and shooting a human cannonball across the U.S.-Mexico border. He started drawing, then made films and art installations — mental illness would be the central theme of his work. After spending some years in Madrid and Berlin, Téllez currently lives in New York City. The San Francisco Art Institute is currently showing “Forbidden Games are in the Labyrinth,” an exhibit that consists of a 46-minute film, Dürer’s Rhinoceros (2010), shot at the Hospital Miguel Bombarda in Lisbon, Portugal, and a giant installation, “Chess” (2014), that substitutes traditional chess pieces with psychiatric implements. The film revolves around the panopticon, an architectural space composed of cells arranged in a circle that was adopted in psychiatric institutions to allow observation of the internees.
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:44:34 +0000
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