Rubiane Maia
Venue
Streaming
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 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.