Dismantle, undo
Ana Cláudia Almeida, Ana Clara Tito, Arorá, Carla Santana, Manuela Costa Lima, Marcelo Pacheco, Marina Woisky, Tatiana Chalhoub and Thomaz Rosa
curated by Guilherme Teixeira
August 13, 2022 - October 15, 2022
São Paulo
Here something goes by another name.
It’s as if there were a limit here, a limit to what we know about the bodies that touch each other in this space and also what we know about the ways in which history has driven their gestures. In this strange movement that inhabits these walls, we ask everyone to take four or five steps back and evaluate every essence of possibility that is hidden in the handling of the material that we exhibit here. There is no certainty, and we don’t want there to be, in how the wrists bend over the material, much less in the way the material bends over the support and, even less, in what is delivered to our eyes without any certainty.
It’s as if there were a limit here, and the wrist searches for where its fold is an infinite possibility for the gesture, avoiding its own bankruptcy in the quest to understand where its long line in history lies. It’s also about where the gesture is born and how, of all its conditions, it is absolutely certain that the most aggressive was the human one.
There is a limit here, in permanent confrontation with something that cannot be appropriated, and which speaks to us of the importance – if there is any – of history in the way things whose names we don’t yet know leak from the wrist, the grip, the kiss. It’s something like a task, infinite and Sisyphean, which not even pleonasms can handle. There is a limit here, which questions the means by which materials are emulated, gestures are reconfigured and discourses are projected onto the way we see matter today.
Here something goes by another name.
Guilherme Teixeira
