CAF 8 - Runo Lagomarsino

Runo Lagomarsino

Runo Lagomarsino is an artist based in Malmö, Sweden. His work explores themes of language, geography and historiography, revealing the fragility of language and its impact on understanding. He has exhibited solo at Nils Staerk, Copenhagen; Formato, Malmö; Museo Moderno, Stockholm; Francesca Minini, Milan; and the Dallas Museum of Art. In group exhibitions, he has participated at Kiasma, Helsinki; daadgalerie, Berlin; PAC, Milan; LACMA, Los Angeles; and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. He has also been part of international events such as Prospect 4, New Orleans; the Venice Biennale; and the São Paulo Biennial.

SER LIBRE

This installation of the artist video “I am also smoke” inside a vintage gaucho carriage serves as an exploration of exile, memory, and liberation. The work features the experience of the artist’s father’s first cigarette on European soil after fleeing Argentina with his family following the 1976 military coup. In this way, Lagomarsino connects this personal narrative of displacement and survival to a larger question of migration, and draws a parallel to Éxodo del Pueblo Oriental, the mass migration more than 200 years earlier. The title SER LIBRE its a frottage of the monument Éxodo del Pueblo Orienta, by Heber Ramos Paz.