PERFORMANCE SEWN MOUTH
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Opening the Inernational Performance Biennial “Deformes” 2010.
Entrance to the Contemporay Arts Museum.
His mouth is sewn.
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Eight careful stitches crossing his lips’ limits. Sewing is the consummated fact.
The viewer constructs it, almost unwillingly, in his innermost imagination.
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Standing with his back against the Museum. For several minutes the expecting viewers keep their distance without being able to see what is happening.
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When people come closer, they observe. Thus the work comes to life. Breathing on scattered thoughts, the image is now complete.
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Echoes from the past. Other mouths sewn for political reasons, related to hunger strikes, channeled by social injustice. These are stitches in the epidermal need of war.
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What happens when a recurrent political image moves into art?
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“We want to recognize ourselves in the experience of the body from a multiplicity of meanings”, read the event’s organization.
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Performance is a call to action. Opens up a deep breach between saying and doing. The body is witness to this abyss beneath it’s feet. Silently, it strikes a conversation.
Rocío Casas Bulnes
October / 2010