Song for my Hands - Bienal 2018 Brasil

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Under the supervision of the curator, Marta Mestre, for the months previous to the opening all arrangements of logistics and authorization were delivered digitally. The synopsis was translated from portuguese into english by us, for official publication in all vehicles. Communication snippets where also exttracted from the text for promotional matters, aligned with general strategy. All aspects of production were closely monitored, including the montage and vernissage. The curator was hosted for a week previous to the event,

SYNOPSIS

In 1968, Richard Serra shot a series of short films on a super-8 camera including Hand Catching Lead. On a fixed plan, Serra’s hand opens and closes while trying to grab pieces of lead, releasing them immediately when he is successful, thus reproducing a syncopated and intermittent progress of the film. Under the pretext of an experiment of hands in action, Serra’s film is a forceful reflection over the sculptural work in particular and on the nature of the artistic gesture in general. Drifting from the idea of retinal art, where the eye controls the perception of matter, a historical trait of art up to Modernism, Hand Catching Lead evidences the haptic dimension of the image while dismissing the purpose of the gesture.
Song for my Hands gathers 12 artists from around the world who explore distinctive artistic practices related to art and technique. In special regard to the abstract thinking and its relation to manual labour. These artists are instigate by the fluxes and transformations of materials, by the knowledge acquired through “making” or the political performance and the ethics of gesture.   

Emerging within the combination of the exposed works is the common ground of “manual thinking” and the idea of “process”. Sustaining a purposeful diversity of technical means, the exposition withholds an omnipresent tactile dimension as the critical element, extending its contribution to the elaboration of a historical subject of senses.

In the midst of rigorous thoughts and undisciplined imagination, Song for my Hands deepens the notion of conceptual handicraft and intuitive industry, understood here as a counterpoint to the logic of industrial production and mass consumption.

An inevitable acceleration of the world that affects the conditions of our perception.​
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words by Marta Mestre

translation by howtoSamba?

Song for my Hands
Curated by Marta Mestre
MON - Óscar Niemeyer Museum 
Biennal of Curitiba, Brazil
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Digital photo
2017

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