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LAVATORY [LAVATORIO], registry of the performance “Cuánto vacío puede llenar un mueble” (How much emptiness can a piece of furniture fill)

Ariana Beilis2022

Fundación Itaú Argentina

Fundación Itaú Argentina
Buenos Aires, Argentina

LAVATORY is an object that registers the performance ¿Cuánto vacío puede llenar un mueble? (How much emptiness can a piece of furniture fill?). In that action, I adapt the shape of home furniture as a workout routine. The piece that I present is part of a group of five moments that I attempt to transfer to the objects, in order to evoke the performance that originated them. The poses-furniture that I materialize are a lavatory, chair, table, screen, and bed, in allusion to a long domestic day. In this work, I alternate flections with moments of relative still, where I hold my body in an anxious state of restrained tension. The restlessness is not sportive, but a strategy to overcome the incapacity of doing, without feeling disoriented about it and thinking of how identity relates to what I do, if perhaps I am a product of what I do, and who am I when I can’t do it. Therefore, I change my human nature and my dysfunctional feeling to the furniture. And without doing, still, I keep doing, pretending, giving life to a living thing with a specific function.

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  • Title: LAVATORY [LAVATORIO], registry of the performance “Cuánto vacío puede llenar un mueble” (How much emptiness can a piece of furniture fill)
  • Creator: Ariana Beilis
  • Date Created: 2022
  • Date Published: 2022
  • Location: Santa Fe, Santa Fe
  • Physical Dimensions: 90 x 135 cm
  • Original Language: Español
  • Provenance: Finalists of 13th Itaú Artes Visuales Award. 2021-2022.
  • Type: Object
  • Publisher: Itaú Foundation Argentina
  • Medium: Object (tiles, photograph, toothbrush, cup, etc.)
Fundación Itaú Argentina

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