The three artists explore contemporary notions through themes of body language, feminism and social marginality that are encountered in the works exhibited.
Native and resident of Mexico, Pia Camil holds the heritage of her country from where she draws much of her inspiration.
Pia presents here 'Gaby's T shirt', a textile work produced by the assembly of t-shirts bought in Iztapalapa, a market of Mexico famous for its precariousness, and realized by the women of this district. Affected by the logos of American brands, these T-shirts evoke the powerful cultural and economic domination of the United States. Pia dyed them in red, a color with strong meaning in the Mexican tradition, in its desire to revalue the crafts and heritage of Mexico. The voids created by the passes preserved in the curtain evoke the ghosts of the bodies that wore these garments, inanimate signs of their lived experience and of a value both sentimental and human to the artist.
Jesse Darling, an artist who uses the pronoun “they," explores gender with sculptures which combine salvaged material with metal work to create elegant and anthropomorphic structures.
The desire for emancipation and acceptance of margins is at the heart of Paul Maheke's approach. Strongly imbued with dance and staging, his works are much more akin to sensitive experiences than to fixed productions.
Based on "Authentic Movement" dance practice Seeking After the Fully Grown Dancer *deep within* explores notions of performativity in relation to body representation.
Engaging the viewers in an informal conversation, Maheke —with this filmed version of what was primarily a live performance— uses a subtitled narration to address the ambivalence of a situation wherein which the performer is trying to reach authenticity while acknowledging the presence of the audience and the impossibility of escaping tropes and power dynamics.
With this work Maheke deepens his exploration with movement considering the body as an archive; and dance as a thinking process.
