Cuerpos Pájaros / Body-Birds
curated by Laura Hakel
Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
Opening November 24, 2018 - 11:30 hs.
At the Moderno, Mercedes Azpilicueta (La Plata, 1981, lives and works in Amsterdam) will present a series of artworks made in the past five years that have never before been seen in the country as well as a new film commissioned by the Moderno and a performance piece conceived especially for this exhibition.
This panoramic selection of artworks, curated by Laura Hakel, a curator at the Moderno, will highlight the social, emotional and economic elements of Azpilicueta’s work as expressed in voice, body and language. Her works place the focus on how voice and language reveal certain aspects about behaviour that we see and hear everyday. To gather material for her performances, Azpilicueta collects, interprets and manipulates words and sounds from everyday situations such as street hawking, text messaging and behaviour in public spaces, situations where an invisible network of assumptions come into play. The artist exposes these assumptions, showing what can and cannot be achieved through communication and how we construct symbols of excessive strength, or even violence, in our everyday oral language.