Booth B15
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THIS IS NOT A WHITE CUBE art gallery presents “Gardens” - a site-specific project by the Angolan/Portuguese artist Pedro Pires. “Gardens” addresses the theme of identity, which has been central in the author's work over the last few years, and proposes a performative approach as an exhibition model, exploring the relation between performance and installation as a paradigm of formal transformation of the exhibition space and relational transformation with the public.
Through this model, Pedro Pires confers a participatory dimension to the project to emphasize the importance of the role that the public assumes in the context of his artistic production and in the construction of critical thinking in contemporary times. At a 3 x 3 x 3 m cube, Pedro Pires presents two unreleased series of works made on paper, entitled “Specific” and “Universal”; 2 iron sculptures and an installation of monumental dimension, maintained in constant metamorphosis, which configures the epicenter of the project and gives it a name. Based on a mental game grounded in the notions of reality and artificiality, this set promotes a theoretical reflection on the construction models of individual and collective identity and on how it can be established from the relationship between individuals' physical appearance and their ideals.
