Body Circumstances:
The Body Between the Public and Private Spaces
Curated by Arlindo Machado and Christine Mello
In this program we have presented a group of works by 10 Brazilian artists
that represent the way media conditions the body in public and private
spaces. Instead of trying to discern where one or the other situation
is specifically found, we prefer to privilege the ambiguous experiences,
the intermediate states and the contamination of one space by the other.
The exhibition consists of two programs that bring together experimental
works in video that share very particular views about public and private
spaces. Program 1 - THE BODY FROM PUBLIC TO PRIVATE SPACES - gathers experiences
about the conflicts induced by globalized urban spaces, where permanent
vigilance predominates.
Program 2 - THE BODY FROM PRIVATE TO PUBLIC SPACES - is a selection of
works wherein the encounters between the bodies of the artists and the
electronic apparatus are enacted. They are sensitive bodies that, due
to technological mediation, gain a public existence, the same way as those
that face the conflict with the urban landscape.
Read the full curatorial essay.
PROGRAM 1
Framed Curtains by Eder Santos,
Distorted visions of the city of Hong Kong. Incomprehensible dialogues between people and the wait for the real understanding between the West and the East.
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Fluorescences by Rachel Rosalen,
Flourescences presents the city of São Paulo as an erotic body, participating in public spaces. Tunnels, totems, avenues and the surface of advertising billboards are considered as skin.
View the videoLaleska by Bruno de Carvalho
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PROGRAM 2
I Have Never Forgotten by Lucila Meirelles,
Part of the series Present Body that speaks of the navel, the body and its inside/ outside relations.
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Privacy Invasion by Inês Cardoso,
Sequence of 5 videos relating the city with personal events.
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Between by Nina Galanternick,
An investigation of the body revealing the various eyes/ gazes we can have. This follows in other objects of desire (material or not).
View the videoInterview by Neide Jallageas,
The body of the artist, self-referential, in front of the video camera, mediated by a cardiac rhythm and by the shooting of a photographic camera.Merreis by Leandro Hbl
View the videoPrelude to an announced death by Rafael Franca
1991
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@ MOCA at California Plaza
Nov. 9, 11am -5pm
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