Nathalie Mba Bikoro
dal 25/3/2014 al 25/3/2014
Segnalato da
25/3/2014
Nathalie Mba Bikoro
SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
Present Tense Series. Pieta'; The Hammer, Mother & Child. This performance piece creates a symbolic link to Berlin's political and social history, weaving poetry about the strength of humanity beyond the cultures.
curated by Chiara Cartuccia
On Wednesday, March 26, within the frame of Present Tense Series, Nathalie Mba Bikoro will present the second part of the performance installation “Pietà; The Hammer, Mother & Child”. Pietà thematizes the concepts of resurrection and celebration of life and death. It investigates the significance of hammer as a tool of protest, love and trade, throughout its history to Michelangelo’s “Pietà”. This performance piece creates a symbolic link to Berlin’s political and social history, weaving poetry about the strength of humanity beyond the cultures.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nathalie Mba Bikoro (b. 1985 in Libreville, Gabon) is an interdisciplinary artist, whose artwork aims to bring together communities by collecting fractured narratives for the sake of social change through identity, memory, dialogue, history and multilingualism. Her personal experiences facilitated her sensibility to cross-interculturalism and languages, which she explores to deconstruct and re-construct mythologies of both past and present. In her artistic practice the narratives examine the eternal returns of historical and visual stereotypes throughout art history, and the ways they influence current societies and interactions. The ultimate purpose is not to resolve the colonial contexts, but rather expose fragile nuances of the political, in order to foster the legacy of celebrating the multiplicity of voices and cultural identities, as well as challenging conceptions of origin, authenticity and ritual.
Bikoro has participated in numerous international exhibitions and festivals, among others Perpendicular Brazil (2011), African Heritage London (2010) and Museum Africa Johannesburg South Africa (2011), EPAF11 Warsaw Poland (2011) and Dak’Art Biennale 10th edition (2012).
PRESENT TENSE SERIES is SAVVY Contemporary's performance program for 2014. The series, curated by the art historian Chiara Cartuccia, meant to investigate practices and theories of contemporary performance art through a dense program of live performances, artist talks and workshops, with the final aim to open up a significant, fruitful discussion about this particular field of artistic production, which eschews any codification and possible classification.
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Marina Kochaytseva communications@savvy-contemporary.com
Opening 26 march
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