Falke Pisano's work (Netherlands, 1978), is based on long-term projects, which she conceives as organised fields of research, production, and reflection. Her installations explore the status of knowledge and learning programmes with the aid of diagrammatic structures and abstract sculptural forms.

In her latest series of works, The value in mathematics, Pisano examines the often overlooked relationship between culture and mathematics. Through sculptures, texts, diagrams, and videos, she investigates how western cultural values, such as progress, rationality, and universality, have influenced the way we have come to think about mathematics. While some of the works in the exhibition question the past and present position of "advanced mathematics", others investigate the possibility of the existence of multiple forms of mathematics. The value in mathematics is divided in ten parts, each of which consists of a text panel and a visual component, most of them sculptural. Some objects refer to thought, others refer to acts of production, exchange, measuring, calculating, and navigating and question how methods and practices vary in different contexts.

As a whole The value in mathematics - How do we learn?  leads us in steps along the thought process of the artist, who sets out to find an answer to the question "Do there exist multiple mathematics?" and discovers along the way the importance of examining one¿s inherited framework of thought.

This proyect has been shown before at REDCAT, Los Angeles, CAC La Synagogue de Delme and Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe. A publication will come out co-produced by Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía with these institutions. Falke Pisano lives and works in Amsterdam and São Paulo. She has participated in several exhibition projects in Kunstverein, Graz, The Showroom, London, Museu d'Art Contemporani (MACBA), Barcelona, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam or Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Her work has also been shown in the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009, 13th Istanbul Biennial in 2009, Manifesta 2008 and the 5th Berlin Biennale in 2008.

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