Juliana Cerqueira "Into"

Jack Chiles Gallery

poster for Juliana Cerqueira "Into"

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Into is the product of a new series of works by Juliana Cerqueira Leite that fall under the title of 'Breaking Strength'. These works attempt to challenge the status quo between the artist and her materials. Sculpting by falling or pushing into material in volumes larger than the artist is physically capable of handling alters the standard of control that the art's working body imposes over matter.

Cerqueira Leite has begun investigating materials that offer less physical resistance than more common modeling materials such as clay. This allows the act of sculpting form to be less driven by force and increasingly by a compromise between the behavior of the material and the behavior of the artist's body also as material object, using its weight and form. Distinct from works where chance is a
significant element, these works begin with a clear aim (in this case to push the body entirely into a mass of lard in six directions: front, back, and four diagonal sides), searching for a point of balance between figurative representation and process.

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from May 06, 2011 to May 27, 2011

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