Shapeshifters -mutaciones

The ephemeral and the photographic record; the body and the spirit; volume and matter; lightness and heaviness; appearance and essence; delivery and reception; statism and movement; distance and proximity; desire and reason; being and seeming; the virtual and the real; space and time; the learned and the forgotten; limits and freedom. Ariadna Pastorini's sculptures display all these levels and imbricate them in such a way that only analysis can individualize them, necessarily betraying the totality. But, at the same time, the dissection allows us to enter into the creative complexity of the artist who postulates, through her ephemeral performative works crossed by photography, a rereading of the terms associated with sculpture throughout the history of Western art. How not to recall, from the forceful contemporaneity proposed by this work, the mimesis of classical antiquity, medieval hieratism, Renaissance contrapposto, the folds and contrasts of baroque, the contours of neoclassicism, the successive ruptures of modernity? The artist resorts to the term shapeshifters to account for the transformation produced in the proposal-experience lived as a whole, where the interaction with the other is decisive. In Pastorini's hands, the canvases take on an unusual life, the colors are enhanced generating atmospheres, the body enters a universe with the powerful rules of fantasy and reality is filled with longings. Here, the sculpture, more than ever before, highlights the corporeality in conversion, confirming, in this historical time of incessant changes and conflicts, the need for closeness, communication, amplitude, encounter. And it tells us that other forms and looks are always possible, other more sensitive and human contexts.

Lockdown performances

This project is a document of creative processes during the quarantine due to the covid 19-pandemic in 2020-21 120 artists from countries all over the world participated. Sharing their emotions and discourses expressed in performances, texts, talks, collective video, during months of confinement. Project invented and realized by Ariadna Pastorini with collaboration by Machi Pérez www.ariadnapastorini.com Este proyecto es un documento de procesos creativos durante la cuarentena por la pandemia covid 19-en 2020-21. 120 artistas de países del mundo participaron trabajando con sus emociones y discursos plasmadas en performances, textos, charlas, video colectivo, en estos meses de encierro.

Proyecto ideado y realizado por Ariadna Pastorini con la colaboración de Machi Pérez.

https://issuu.com/ariadnapastorini/docs/performances_de_encierro_issuu

Performance Pastorini

Book / archive of performances realized between the 1980s and 2022.

100 pages. Artist Edition 2022.