WIELS, Contemporary Art Centre opens an exhibition of works by Mario García Torres
(Artdaily.org)

Illusion Brought Me Here maps out the elusive body of work of Mexican artist Mario García Torres for the first time in Europe. Accompanied by a specially-composed retrospective sound piece, titled Silence’s Wearing Thin Here (n.d.), the exhibition at WIELS sets out to explore the ways García Torres has revisited the legacies of conceptual art through the pursuit of secret projects and rumored events over the past twenty years, and how he has used a wide range of sound and music, from classical avant-garde to hard rock. García Torres adopts various media, from sound to video, installation to painting, sculpture to drawing. His early use of slideshows and 16mm film allowed him to consider the subjective nature of memory and historical records (What Happens in Halifax Stays in Halifax (In 36 Slides), 2004–2006 and One Minute to Act a Title: