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The work of Ana Mazzei (São Paulo, 1980) reflects the structures that establish and delimit the space of representation and staging. The reference to the performing arts is recurrent, emerging in videos that evoke scenic devices and small felt models that evoke Greco-Roman theaters, for example. In other works, this reflection is transposed into the scope of painting, analyzing its formal, semantic and symbolic structures, from the perspective to the framing. Recently, Mazzei has turned to the attitudes of the bodies that inhabit the space of representation. Garabandal, Marat and Ascension compose a series of pieces of furniture that allow the visitor to shore up his body in order to approach the unnatural poses of celebrated figures painted by artists such as Jacques-Louis David or Giotto. The bodies supported by the devices freeze gestures, transposing the social and symbolic conventions of the history of art to the actuality of the exhibition space.