From Monday, September 1st to Thursday, September 11th, on loop from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. This video selection brings together two main ideas. On one hand, it investigates the body and its capacity for minimal, repetitive movements. In this reiteration, speed and different parts of the body become tense, thus exploring limits and resistance. Although the exploration of repetition and bodily tension seems to be the common thread, the videos also emphasize the activation of four of the five senses through the body’s contact with objects. In this conjunction, the following senses emerge: sight, in the multiplication of eyes as custodians; hearing, in the sustained utterance of a word as a mantra of denunciation; taste, in the swallowing of ashes that are part of the scorched remains of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro—a symbolic anthropophagy of cultural remnants extinguished by flames; and touch, on sculptural casts usually intended for the visual study of the arts.
Image: Florencia Caiazza, Untitled, photo: Robert Harte