Vain

The Blueproject Foundation presents the performance Vain, by Rubiane Maia. The event will be broadcast in streaming from the United Kingdom, where the Brazilian artist Rubiane Maia resides, who due to current circumstances has not been able to travel to Barcelona for her residency. The project adapts to the new reality and will be presented on Thursday, December 3, at 7p.m (CET), followed by a chat with the artist and the public online.

Vain
Composition no. 2
Thursday December 3, 7pm
Link to streaming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3hspGOG4WU

Vain is an experimental action based on the manipulation of different rusty metal objects that have holes and/or are tube shaped. Most of the pieces were collected in an important geological area in South East England, a place where nature and biodiversity merge with numerous vestiges of human interventions from other times. Above all, the core of this proposal is in this sensory contact with inorganic matter in a state of decomposition, which in its singularity is able to retain fragments of memory from a non-human point of view. The choice of focusing on empty spaces (openings or holes) in/side solid blocks comes from the intention of working with gaps that function as ‘portals’; intermediate zones that mark the passage, transfer and propagation of hidden and secret ‘information’. The inside and the outside. Through gesture and physical contact with these objects, the performance seeks to establish a significant communicative link between two bodies—one human and the other inanimate—through sound. This is a channeling exercise, facilitating the emergence of certain frequencies, vibrations and sounds.

Rubiane Maia is a Brazilian visual artist based in Folkestone, UK and Vitoria, Brazil. She has a degree in Visual Arts and a Master’s Degree in Institutional Psychology from Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil. Her artwork is a hybrid practice moving across performance, video, installation and text, while occasionally flirting with drawing and collage. In 2015 she took part in the workshop Cleaning the House, with Marina Abramovic, and participated in the exhibition Terra Comunal - Marina Abramovic + MAI, at SESC Pompéia, São Paulo, with the long-duration performance The Garden (2 months). In the same year she produced her first short film, EVO, which premiered at the 26th Festival Internacional de São Paulo and 22nd Festival de Cinema de Vitória. In 2016 she worked on the project entitled Preparation for Aerial Exercise, the Desert and the Mountain, which required her to travel to the high-altitude landscapes of Uyuni (Bolivia), Pico da Bandeira (Espírito Santo/Minas Gerais, Brazil) and Monte Roraima (Roraima, Brazil/Santa Helena de Uyarén, Venezuela). In the same year she completed her second short film, entitled ÁDITO. Since 2018 she has been working on the creation of a book-performance, a series of actions devised in response to specific autobiographical texts.