Verve gallery opens 'Position', first solo exhibition by the Cuban artist Carlos Martiel in Brazil. The exhibition features new works produced especially for the Brazilian context and a critical text by Ayrson Heraclitus, an artist with whom he has collaborated countless times and has maintained an intense exchange for many years.
Based in New York, Martiel is one of the most prestigious performers of our time and has performed at important institutions such as the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York (USA); El Museo del Barrio, New York (USA); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands); The Museum of Fine Arts Houston (USA), among others. Winner of numerous awards, his works are also part of the permanent collections of the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York (USA); The Pérez Art Museum Miami (Miami, USA); the Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro, among others. The artist is currently presenting a major retrospective exhibition at the Museo del Barrio, also in New York City, curated by the institution's director, Rodrigo Moura.
In the works developed for this exhibition, Martiel investigates the dynamics surrounding indigenous and diasporic bodies, exploring issues of resistance and resilience in the different contexts of colonization. In this way, the artist weaves connections with Brazilian reality in different areas through religion (such as Candomblé), symbols (flags and medals) and territory (demarcations and disputes). In highly synthetic and powerful works, Martiel transforms his existence into a radical artistic experience. In the critical text developed for the exhibition, Ayrson Heráclito accurately defines the strength of his work: “we can think of his artistic discourse as the dissonant voice of a black, queer, exiled and immigrant subject in constant conflict with the policies of subjection of his time. Presenting an archive of situations in which racism, sexism, colonialism and utopianism intersect in the most vile and sadistic violence, the artist produces an anti-racist and libertarian manifesto. The poetics of his work triggers an uncomfortable ethical and political scare in the audience”, concludes the curator.
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Exhibition | Possession
From August 24th to October 24th
Tuesday to Friday, from 11:00 to 18:00 / Saturday, from 12:00 to 17:00
