Frame Reframe Unframe

"Do, undue, redo” - one of the sayings and writings that the artist Louise Bourgeois eternalized as a synthesis of a constant reworking of self which, even when it seemed self-destructive, was fundamental to the integrity of her persona and her work. Here, a paraphrase is presented: "Frame, unframe, reframe". The framework - a central notion for the definition of processes of representation and perception in different artistic languages ​​- and the possibilities of disputing it, circumventing its rules and reconstituting it crossed by bodies and spaces.
Framing is not only defining a geometric edge for an image or space, it is also delineating a mediation between in and out of action, depth and epidermis of poetics. Whether in painting, theater, dance, photography or cinema, framings mobilize language features that include, but are not limited to, the material edges of a frame and proscenium. The picture is the border of the scene, but it is also an indication that there is an interior space to the artistic language. Modern and contemporary experiences have tried in every way to analyze its functioning and alternately emphasize it, deny it, and reformulate it. In this exhibition, we count on the ability of the invited artists to assimilate part of the history of the framing and, at the same time, to explore apparent contradictions or fissures in its functioning.

Their paths and languages ​​are singular, but it is possible to approach them by the relations with structural aspects of the picture. Ana Mazzei and Renata de Bonis approach borderline situations between the inside and outside representation in the history of Western painting, translating them into space devices that encompass the body of the viewer. Claudia Briza and Marcia Beatriz Granero take advantage of the cinematographic language's efficiency in defining a verifiable narrative field to create short circuits between fact and fiction, person and character. Patrícia Araujo and Manuela Eichner respond to the experiences of urban, imaginary and / or expository space as pictures that edit their bodies, reacting with interventions that extrapolate the unity of the framed image.

Research and Curatorial Department
Paulo Miyada and Olivia Ardui