Entre corpos, atos e tempos: performances escultóricas

Entre corpos, atos e tempos: performances escultóricas

GIL

Curatorial text: Katia Salvany 

Gil approaches a creator’s double condition: on one hand he has the expanded role of “designated performer”, a term coined by Claire Bishop (2012), aimed at those who activate actions/performances as outsourced creators, selected for a certain professional or physical skill, with all the risks and different degrees of unpredictability involved, however GIL, artist and sculptor, tensions what would initially be the condition of a second-degree “outsourced” of the action, a three-dimensional interpreter of the body in action in time, to take its place as an image modeler.

As the authorial protagonist of his sculptures, the artist goes further in the process of creating “constructed situations”, as stated by the Indian artist Tino Seghal (1976-), a mix between reality and fiction, with additions of things, unusual actions, where his subjectivity and sculptural technical expertise establish sensitive dialogues, with the artists and performers Silvana Sarti and Yohana Oizume in the “Performances Escultóricas” project, presented here at Estúdio Extraordinário in Itu/SP - Brazil.

In this sense, his sculptures distance themselves from what could be understood as three-dimensional reinterpretations of the artists' performances, which in itself would be something interesting and unusual, however, his sculptural performances are autonomous, they go further, they incorporate aspects of the actions and intentions of the “performative program” (Eleonora Fabião), whose statement guides the engine of experimentation to enter the field of imagined, fabled images, pure materialized sensation.

We know how much the performance, procedural and durational art, situated in post-World War II experiments, owes to the visual arts, especially to three-dimensional modalities, its place as an artistic expression, as a lateralized derivative of sculptural thought and its relationships with form, light, textures, time and space.

GIL's sculptures do not participate in the artists' actions, they were not created to be manipulated by them, they are from another time affected by the reverberations, feelings, insights and thoughts crossed by GIL in the face of the image and dream of the other in the activation of the action. The sculptural performances are like temporal overlaps visited in the process and dialogue with the artists, until in this amalgam a body is present, impregnated with the artists' intentions but is also full of subjectivities and constructions created by GIL.

BISHOP, Claire. Delegated Performance: outsourcing authenticity. October 140, Spring 2012, pp.91-112, October Magazine Ltd & MIT/Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

FABIÃO, Eleonora. Programa performativo: O-corpo-em-experiência. ILINX-Revista do Lume. Nº4 (2013), artigo digital.

FERRETI, Ilaria. Tino Sehgal. Constructed situations. Juliet-Contemporary Art Magazine, 6 january 2021.

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The exhibition will be on display until March 15, 2025

Curation: Katia Salvany

Production and Assembly: Equipe EE (EE Team)

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