Pivô Satélite #5: Gianfranco Piazzini e Diego Vizcarra integram a segunda parte de 'Conmoción total en mis células', com curadoria do coletivo Bisagra

The second part of “Conmoción total en mis células” shows the work of Gianfranco Piazzini and Diego Vizcarra. They continue with the investigation of what is outside and inside the human body, what are its limits and how we manipulate those limits. The work of the two artists is composed of symbolic processes in which the body is gradually dissolved and the protagonist role falls on dynamics that remind us of it, or what is left of it. They also talk about their boundaries and how they react to the encounter between two bodies.

The sound with which this second exhibition opens is a set of recordings that Piazzini makes of his own body, with his stomach and his heartbeats, which, out of context and superimposed, serve as a landscape or abstract soundtrack for visiting the different pieces on display here.

Diego Vizcarra’s animations show us the wall of his house very close to the sea, which the breeze eats away, causing it to constantly lose layers of paint, like molts of skin. Behind these walls hides another skin, which is in turn a new frontier.

In their work together, they create an animation of a moth passing through the pages of a book, feeding on them, drawing or tracing a path through the emptiness.

Conmoción total en mis células is the title of the fifth edition of the Pivô Satélite programme. The project is curated by the Bisagra collective and also brings proposals by Gianfranco Piazini, Diego Vizacarra, Sylvia Fernández, Rodrigo Andreolli, Rita Ponce de León, Shinnosuke Niiro and Yaxkin Melchy. The artists will occupy the platform with proposals organized from the collaboration between two or three artists. The result will be an exhibition that invites the exchange of the creative universes of the invited artists.

The digital platform Pivô Satélite is a project room within the Pivô website. Its program is conceived by artists and curators invited by the institution and comprises artistic proposals in various formats, especially designed for digital media.

In 2022, instead of inviting independent curators to program each edition of the Satellite Pivot, we will invite institutions based in Latin America that, like the Pivô, act directly in the promotion and dissemination of an emerging contemporary artistic production in the region. In this new format we aim to create opportunities for exchange and circulation of Brazilian artistic production and broaden the dialogue with neighbouring countries. The second guest of 2022 is the Peruvian curatorial platform Bisagra, managed by Andrés Pereira Paz, Eliana Otta, Florencia Portocarrero, Iosu Arambaru, Juan Diego Tobalina and Miguel A. López

In Conmoción total en mis células [Total commotion in my cells] it seeks to “expand our understanding of the boundaries between human and non-human living beings and challenge the dichotomies between the personal and the social, life and death”. The curators urge us to question and admit the interdependencies and vulnerabilities of beings in relation to the world around them.

“Do our bodies really belong to us … do I have a body or am I a body? After two years of pandemic, our overlap with the world of the living – understood in a broad, non-anthropocentric sense – has become evident; revealing that we lack words and images that allow us to represent the porosity that constitutes us and runs through us as inhabitants of this planet.”

04.08 a 31.09 – Esteban Igartua + Genietta Varsi

01.09 a 28.09 – Gianfranco Piazzini + Diego Vizcarra

29.09 a 26.10 – Sylvia Fernández + Rodrigo Andreolli

27.10 a 23.11 – Rita Ponce de León + Shinnosuke Niiro + Yaxkin Melchy