Open studio: Sábado 18 de noviembre BIENALSUR is the promoter of a network of associative collaboration between museums, cultural centres and universities around the world and, as such, undertakes joint projects that bring together institutions in challenges interactions. Along these lines, a residency project was developed between BIENALSUR and Solar de Abacaxis. The outcome of this initiative was the presentation by Carolina Favre and Gianmarco Porru of the performance Aquatic Ballet, conceived as a meeting point and a space for dialogue between the key elements of the artists' work. From a sacred, symbolic and ludic perspective, the body in relation to water serves as a guide for a performative experimentation in dialogue with the exhibition Cultivos do misterio and the outdoor space of Solar dos Abacaxis. Drawing on the building's past as a former factory, Favre creates sculptural figures that contort, bend and fray, alluding to both the work and the experience of the transmutation of matter. The artist uses cement, floating tubes for swimming and various natural elements such as fruit and plants to experiment with the formation of hybrid, irregular and desiring bodies, challenging the notion of binarism between subjects and objects and the very idea of perspective. In the work Fluid Magnesia, the questioning of boundaries between the organic and the industrial creates tensions that give rise to the emergence of strangeness, in reference to studies of queer theories.
