stainless (2024)
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stainnless is metal morphing into the organic, ceramics merging with the industrial, sculpture piercing the flesh, and body becoming sculptural. It is the layered process of translation and penetration at the core of the practice of choreographer/performer, visual artist and set designer July Weber, who turns the concrete space of the gallery into a stage. Curated by Silvio Saraceno, stainless operates at the intersection between sculpture and performance. It unfolds as a perpetual interplay, a “somatic living room” where soft wellness collides with fetishized sharp forms. This formalistic orgy features aggressive chess figures, giant piercings, melting ears, floating musical instruments and oversized razor blades- elements that penetrate each other and whose impact challenges the bodies that engage with them. Simultaneously, these symbols of mastery and corporal control, now deconstructed, reclaim their ephemeral nature and become pure toys alongside the body. Through subversion,…
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stainnless is metal morphing into the organic, ceramics merging with the industrial, sculpture piercing the flesh, and body becoming sculptural. It is the layered process of translation and penetration at the core of the practice of choreographer/performer, visual artist and set designer July Weber, who turns the concrete space of the gallery into a stage. Curated by Silvio Saraceno, stainless operates at the intersection between sculpture and performance. It unfolds as a perpetual interplay, a “somatic living room” where soft wellness collides with fetishized sharp forms. This formalistic orgy features aggressive chess figures, giant piercings, melting ears, floating musical instruments and oversized razor blades- elements that penetrate each other and whose impact challenges the bodies that engage with them. Simultaneously, these symbols of mastery and corporal control, now deconstructed, reclaim their ephemeral nature and become pure toys alongside the body. Through subversion,…
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