Zeide Isaac, 2009
Zeide Isaac is a work of fiction rooted in reality, produced collaboratively by Cesarco and his grandfather Isaac, who is 94 years old and a survivor of the Holocaust. Whereas standard testimonies of survival presuppose an overriding fidelity to events, here Cesarco has written a script that his grandfather performs, as both actor and witness. […]
Everness, 2008
Everness is a film installation made up of 5 chapters: a remake of the very last scene of James Joyce’s The Dead, a monologue on the meaning of tragedy, a breakfast scene, and two songs: one from the Spanish Civil War and another from Brasil’s Tropicalista movement. The work addresses the revision of public and […]
The Ramones — An Autobiography, 2008
A song list, organized in chronological order, of every Ramones song that begins with the first-person pronoun “I”.
Index (a reading), 2007-2008
The indexes are an ongoing project that maps the development of Cesarco’s interests, readings and preoccupations. Index (a Reading) self-consciously addresses the idea of what constitutes an index, and its relation to reading, writing, memory, history and forgetting.
Once Within a Room, 2008
Once Within a Room is an installation that is neither completely narrative nor primarily formal. It is at once the synopsis, the set, the characters, and the props of a story – a spatial configuration dominated by the phantoms of particular pasts. It presents the classic trope of lover, beloved, and the space between them. […]
Retrospective (with John Baldessari), 2007
Alejandro Cesarco and John Baldessari have collaborated on Retrospective, a series of twelve silk-screens on aluminum works. Retrospective deals with the idea of looking back, how meaning is re-contextualized through memory framing, selecting, re-telling and continuance of a dialogue, history and the acknowledgment of influence. Implicit in the project is a concern for the difference […]
All the things you can’t forget / The shadow of the past, 2006
An installation on opposing walls. One wall is painted black with the text “All the things you can’t forget” written in white, placed almost as subtitles would appear on a film. The opposite wall, “The Shadow of the Past,” is a blank, white wall with dimmed lighting. It has the same method of illumination as […]
Flowers, 2003
A bouquet of flowers was sent to a selected group of people. A performance for a public of one. A card with the following text accompanied the flowers: THIS SCULPTURE BY ALEJANDRO CESARCO IS SPONSERED BY SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK Flowers were sent to: Vija Celmins, Elizabeth Peyton, Roni Horn, Yvonne Rainer, Lynne Tillman, Louise Lawler, […]
Flowers, 2003
A bouquet of flowers was sent to a selected group of people. A performance for a public of one. A card with the following text accompanied the flowers: THIS SCULPTURE BY ALEJANDRO CESARCO IS SPONSERED BY SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK Flowers were sent to: Vija Celmins, Elizabeth Peyton, Roni Horn, Yvonne Rainer, Lynne Tillman, Louise Lawler, […]
Fade Out, 2002
A single slide of a young woman is projected continuously until the image fades out – a physical effect produced by the light and heat emanating from the projector. An exercise in forgeting, the duration of the “performance” — as with the persistence of our memories — is undetermined.
