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Bodies in Motion – Form in the Making
Cinthia Marcelle and Suzanne Harris, Bruce Nauman, Charlotte Posenenske, Yvonne Rainer u.a.

11/08/24 – 02/16/25

Opening 07/11/24, 7 pm

The practice of internationally renowned Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle (b. 1974 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil) is a consequential continuation of socio-political art in 20th century Brazil, combining material experimentation with conceptual and formal rigour and a unique participatory process. At the core of her practice is an interest in the relationship between material, form, time, and space, which she explores in multimedia pieces that combine a decidedly processual and performative methodology with a sculptural approach.

In her performance-based video works, many of which are joint productions with Tiago Mata Machado, Cinthia Marcelle isolates everyday movements and routinised work processes from their functional and production-oriented context. She transforms the mostly collaborative, participatory situations into poetic, metaphorical images that challenge established routines of social interaction and the performance-oriented doctrine of modern societies.

The exhibition Bodies in Motion – Form in the Making focuses on these performative, mostly task-oriented video performances and, for the first time ever, contextualises them alongside icons of post-minimalist dance and performance from the 1960s/70s such as Yvonne Rainer, Bruce Nauman, Suzanne Harris and the performative/participatory approach to creation displayed in Charlotte Posenenske’s minimalist sculptures.

Bodies in Motion – Form in the Making is curated by Anna Roberta Goetz.