SUITCASES FOR MARCEL
2007
Video Installation
12 suitcases adapted with portable video players
Variable dimensions and loops
A series of twelve suitcases reconfigured as video–objects pays tribute to Marcel -Duchamp’s series Boîte–en–valises (1935–41). These video–objects are followed for the period of one year as they change hands and shift from context to context and season to season on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.
The viewer recognizes the crisscrossed geography and the resulting video calendar, but there is no actual narrative here. What counts is the periphery of what one sees.
Installations: Lille 3000, Lille, France, 2015; Sicardi Gallery, Houston, USA, 2014; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland, 2014; MAR – Museu de Artes do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2012; Mkha – Museum of Contemporary art, Antwerp, Belgium, 2011; Maco, Mexico City Art Fair, Mexico, 2010; Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil, 2009; Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009; Americas Society, New York, 2009; Galerie Bendana-Pinel, Paris, France, 2009; Kunsthalle Oslo, Norway, 2008; Arco Art Fair, Galeria Vermelho, Madrid, Spain, 2008; Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil, 2007; Miami Basel Art Fair, Galeria Vermelho, Miami, 2006
I think there is a diction in you about Rio de Janeiro - a city under symbolic attack, deconstructed by several university forces in the country, but you remain with what is a diction of Rio de Janeiro and that Mario de Andrade says is the language of the city that writers from Rio de Janeiro have spoken since the 19th century, since Machado de Assis. The way in which the city is said, how to expose its insides, without fantasizing, appears strong in the new video-object series “Suitcases for Marcel”. You rebuild the city from Duchamp, but it's always in a critically loving way.
PAULO HERKENHOFF, INTERVIEW WITH D&R, “Arte & Ensaios” Magazine,Universidade federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2009
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