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Curating Coconut Museum, 2018

Raul Valverde: Curating Coconut Museum, 2018
Raul Valverde: Curating Coconut Museum, 2018
Raul Valverde: Curating Coconut Museum, 2018
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"Curating Coconut Museum". Exhibition view from "The Artist in His Museum", La Nacional, NYC, 2018

"Curating Coconut Museum". Exhibition view from "The Artist in His Museum", La Nacional, NYC, 2018

"Curating Coconut Museum". Exhibition view from "The Artist in His Museum", La Nacional, NYC, 2018
Curating Coconut Museum, 2018

Single-channel HD video (sound, color)
64:24 minutes.

Curating Coconut Museum presents a selection from the sitcom Museo Coconut (2010/14), focused on ironic situations inside a fictional art museum. Valverde picks the most popular clips online of this comedy series. The work reflects on the difficulty of the institutional art system to generate new modes of sociability.

Exhibition history: