. CINTHIA MARCELLE

Galeria Vermelho - 2017 photo: Edouard Fraipont

Video - color and sound 8’17’’LOOP

Photo: Pedro Napolitano

15,000 chalks embedded in crac ks in walls Projects 105: Cinthia Marcelle - MoMA PS1 (Duplex Gallery ) – New York – USA - 2016

latex paint and tire wax on tray, roll and newspaper

For her artist’s book, Cinthia Marcelle created a series of frottages, imprints of folded sheets, which is also titled The Tempest (2014), and that appear here in the originalsupport , framed in groups. The choice of an analogue process of reproduction is interesting. As the support medium becomes a motif in its own right, the variations of the folding pattern relate a poetic narrative whose muted force derives from the simultaneous presence and absence of what lies underneath.

Video 10' loop Cinthia Marcelle and Tiago Mata Machado

9´37´´ loop In colaboration with Tiago Mata Machado.

Cinthia Marcelle | 2009,| sculpture | wood, tape, numbers | 360 x 8 x 0,7 cm This sculpture conceived to adapt to any spatial specificity from a distance, takes the form of a flexible wooden ruler 360 centimetres in length, a device invented for flat surfaces bending into a curved measure of the height from ceiling to floor.

BURACO NEGRO [BLACK HOLE] of B series Cinthia Marcelle + Tiago Mata Machado | 2008, Brazil | video bxw/sound | 4'41'' in loop Two air currents create abstract shapes on rows of powder. A subtle and yet powerful interpretation of sex and maybe love. The video Black Hole tracks the movement of white powder across a black surface as it is displaced by exhalations of air. Off-camera, the noise of an intimate exchange of breaths contrasts with abstract patterns that resemble constellations. While the soundtrack asserts a palpable human world, this intimate intensity is at the same time diminished by a viewpoint that alters its scale of significance.

POR VIA DAS DÚVIDAS [JUST IN CASE] collage | paper on tape | 21 x 21 cm (transparent), 21 x 30 cm (red/black)

detail

DEFESA of the series OPINIÃO³ [OPINION³] Brazil | drawings | pen on paper | 19,1 x 25,4 x 2cm (each one) Drawings of lectures that I watched.

MARCO ZERO [ZERO LANDMARK] Museu de Arte Moderna, Recife, Brasil | performance | 40’ | bricklayers, bricks, cement, scaffold, calcareous rock, wheelbarrow, tools, food 5 bricklayers are in charge of demolishing a construction – a solid and closed room, built by the same men, in the center of the exhibition space. The sides of this room reproduce, in an inverted way, the walls of the gallery; the roof mirrors the architecture of the place. Inside the room there is a calcareous rock (commonly used in constructions of the region) that is isolated in the center of a scaffold. The workmen occupy the space by hanging their clothes, taking their tools out of boxes and marking some spots on the walls to begin the demolition. The walls are destroyed revealing the scaffold that surrounds the monolith and showing a kind of inverted sculpture. The workmen rest. Some lie down on the floor, others have lunch close to the wall, another one turns on a small radio. The group starts working again by disassembling the scaffold in order to take out the stone. They leave the room taking it in a wheelbarrow. They walk on the street towards a bridge where the rock is thrown into the water.

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT [IMPACTO AMBIENTAL]

GIGANTE DETRÁS [BACK GIANT] photography | 56 x 83 cm | fabric on heads

VIAGEM SOLAR [THE SOLAR TRIP] solo exhibition This exhibition shows a set of works: photographs, sculptures, objects, installation and video vestiges of a trip in an undecipherable sun machine. 1. Solar Machine | installation | note papers on window space, lamps, modified thermometer 2. Unus Mundus - Confront | video | 7’29’’ in loop 3. Pilgrim | dirty socks | 35 x 15 x 3cm 4. Pilgrim | spiny seeds on hat | 35 x 25 x 20cm 5. Intangible Sun Rail | photography | scarf on tree | 50 x 35cm 6. Clue (detail) | sculpture | lines on carpet | 42 x 150 x 195cm 7. Clue | sculpture | lines on carpet | 42 x 150 x 195cm 8. Fata Morgana | sculpture | appropriated wood fence | 150 x 120 x 20cm 9. The Speaker | photography | fabric on head | 50 x 75cm

O CONVERSADOR [THE SPEAKER] photography | 50 x 75 cm | fabric on head

GEOGRAFIA [GEOGRAPHY] of the series Unus Mundus sculpture | 2004 | Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brasil | 256 hose arms and 128 y-connections 128 hose arms lead to a lake. Initially, there is a faucet which takes water to one arm, which connects in Y in regular intervals of time, following a geometric progression. There are then 256 arms, all visible as a group, working simultaneously, forming a sort of delta, proposing geographic accidents at that place. How many hoses are connected right now?

VOLTA AO MUNDO [ROUND THE WORLD] of the series Unus Mundus Brasil | video | 16’29’’ in loop | color, sound 9 white vans move around the same square, where they can all be seen at the same time. The vehicles enter one at a time into the circuit, moving simultaneously around the place. The vans leave the square the same way they did to enter, leaving a track in an empty space. How many vans are moving around squares right now?

CAPA MORADA [CAPE TOWN] series of fabrics Cinthia Marcelle and Jean Meeran | 2003, South Africa | photography | 11 images I choose places in the city where I blend myself so that my presence disappears in the space. I turn into city by mixing myself to the crowd. This work is part of “Very Real Time”, residence program coordinated by Greeg Smith, Cape Town, South Africa.