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2/6/2015

Vanessa Safavi

Motinternational, Bruxelles

MOT International is delighted to present Airbags, an exhibition of new works by Vanessa Safavi. Inspired by soft sculpture and post-minimalist practices, the artist's installations make use of pliable industrial materials, such as steel, silicone and bandages, that evoke biological matter and appear as if in motion between different states—solid, liquid, animated.

Airbags takes as a starting point early experiments that sought to produce reliable data on the human body’s response to sudden, violent forces acting upon it. Inspired by crash test dummies, simulated collisions and NASA tests to prepare astronauts for zero gravity, Safavi’s interest lies in the body as a physical form more than as a social or cultural entity.

The exhibited sculptures, developed from an interest in hybrid forms, attempt to understand the capacity for movement between nature and technology and question relationships between the body and the machine.

Vanessa Safavi (b. 1980, Lausanne, Switzerland) lives and works in Berlin. She had a residency at 92Capital, Lima and Calca, Peru this year, and her recent solo exhibitions include: Milk Revolution, American Academy, Rome; cloud metal cities, Kunsthalle São Paulo; La Nuit Liquide, The Breeder, Athens; 3 Pounds of Jelly, Chert, Berlin; Der Tanz, Atelier Amden, Switzerland; One Torino, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin; After the Monument Comes the People, Back wall, Kunsthalle Basel and I wish Blue could be Water, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch. Safavi was awarded the 2013 Luci d’Artista, public commission in the city of Turin.

Image: Airbags (detail), 2015

Private View: Wednesday 3 June 2015, 6–9pm

MOT International
Place du Petit Sablon, 10
Brussels B-1000
Open Tuesday – Saturday 10 – 6
and by appointment.
The gallery is closed on public holidays

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