The first global perspective on the work of Cinthia Marcelle
The exhibition A Conjunction of Factors features works by the Brazilian multimedia artist from 1999 to the present.
Cinthia Marcelle was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 1974 and currently lives and works in São Paulo. Videos, installations, photos, drawings and small objects are part of her artistic production, a critical work that has, at the same time, a poetic gaze. The Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) is opening on 15 July as the first exhibition offering a global view of the Brazilian artist's creativity. It is called A Conjunction of Factors and will run until 8 January next year.
You will find works the author has made since 1999, with the great variety of media that characterises her. One of the focuses of the exhibition is on a common practice of Marcelle's, which is to involve participants from different backgrounds in her creations, be it a worker, a musician or an acquaintance of hers. As the MACBA reports, "Together with the use of materials and colours that evoke specific contexts, the implication and representation of others in Marcelle's work alludes to the hierarchies of work, class and race that condition our daily interactions and the prevailing social and political order". However, what will probably most attract the attention of anyone entering the museum will be two large-scale installations. The first one, entitled A família em desordem, is key to the new configuration of the rooms on the ground floor of the MACBA; the second, visible all day long from the outside, simulates a radio station on a carpeted stage and is set for the collective re-staging of two plays – Sortilégio (1951), by Abdias do Nascimento, and Une tempête (1969), a critical adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest by Aimé Césaire.
You can find more information on this exhibition at this link.