OPENING: 20th september, 7pm
at SCOTTY ENTERPRISES
Kunstverein für zeitgenössische Kunst und experimentelle Medien,
Oranienstrasse 46
10960 Berlin
BECAUSE BECAUSE:
"Now i am no longer alone.
I am sucked in by others.
I am drowning in true depths, without any reference point."
(Lygia Clark)
What you will see and meet from September 21st to October 12th at Scotty Enterprises,
COISAS MOLHADAS E COISAS SECAS/ WET THINGS AND DRY THINGS/ NASSE DINGE UND TROCKENE DINGE, is a selection of what we encountered, touched and got touched by,
during 133 days and nights that we spent in the great mental city of São Paulo.
The exhibition is an assemblage of our project LÌNGUAS E LÌNGUAS/ LANGUAGES AND TONGUES/ SPRACHEN UND ZUNGEN. In portuguese, like in most other latin languages, the word „língua“ means tongue as well as language and therefore combines two raw axes of our art practice, the body (tongue) and its representation (language) in one word. Tonguing a new territory and meeting the material we were researching the works of three brazilian women: Lygia Clark, Clarice Lispector and Suely Rolnik. And as all true encounters involve molecular blurring, the matter created by this three brazilian chain smokers has greatly contaminated our works. LÌNGUAS E LÌNGUAS was and is an attempt to “apprehend the world in its intensive dimensions: as a diagram of forces that affect us and are present in our bodies in the form of sensations.” This line, taken from Suely Rolniks concept of the resonant body, which she came up with to write about the body of work of Lygia Clark, echoes through this exhibition. It handles with sensations, sensations that easily escape from language. Even moist language and even though Clarice Lispector was very good in catching them.
Between the lines there is the desire for speaking in tongues, spitting spirits, vomiting words, treating words like bodies, stripping a text from a rock.
