Performances

It is an ancestral gesture, the delicate movement of the needle which circulates, coils, threads. The concentration of the seamstress at work.
Installed in the window of a busy street, at the interface of public and private spaces, Renata Andrade denounces violence against women by weaving on her own skin the degrading speeches suffered by women on a daily basis. Whether in the street or in the privacy of their homes, women, from an early age, are the target of sexist remarks that print themselves on their skin and mark them with a hot iron. In the window of this former fine lingerie store, the artist also highlights the link between the objectification of women's bodies, commonly used as a promotional tool, and its consequences in terms of social violence.

At what point does a motive of national pride become an object of isolation? "Declaration of love" questions the concept of integration into a simple dialectic: can you live in a country and not love one of the elements that make up his identity? This work echoes the work of Levy-Strauss and Bettini which questions the construction of identity in its xenophobic form: how to be "me" without rejecting "the other"? In Tristes tropiques, Levy-Strauss thus puts on the same level the anthropophagy of the Indians of Brazil, who eat the other in order to appropriate their qualities, with the anthropemia of Western societies, which, literally, vomit the other. This work thus highlights the fine line between openness to the other and construction of oneself.

As part of # WELL18 at the Louvre-Lens, the artist decided to question the tacit commodification of the female body. To do this, she designed the performance "Love Bites". Dressed in a dress made from 394 candies sculpted in the shape of a vulva, the artist put these pieces of love up for sale. The price ? One piece of the other. A piece of oneself in exchange for one end of the other. Body against body.

Pour cette œuvre d'art vivante et collaborative, l'artiste Renata Andrade, qui réalise notamment des sculptures en argile, propose au public de venir construire et déconstruire une œuvre avec elle. Chacun est libre de venir imprimer sa marque dans un bloc d'argile et d'y exprimer ce qu'il souhaite, en collaboration avec l'artiste. Une communication à travers la matière qui pousse aussi à s'interroger sur la place du langage corporel et de la communication non verbale dans nos sociétés. « C'est une manière pour moi de partager mon expérience de sculptrice, le plaisir de modeler l'argile, poursuit Renata Andrade, et de recevoir en échange l'expérience, le contact, l'émotion du public. »

Neste performance, a escultora - Renata Andrade - apresenta um envolvimento incrivelmente intimo com a material de trabalho e o seu tema recorrente. Não sabemos mais o que é artista, argile ou arvore. Tudo acontece de forma orgânica e com fluência. Onde existiam três elementos se torna um totalmente unificado.

Realização: Grupo O´Culto 

Atuantes: Renata Andrade e Cleide Vieira

Conceito:

Ate onde vai a criação do homem? Ate onde vai o homem criador?

Na necessidade de se tornar eterno o homem cria, constrói e acaba morto pela sua própria criação – O Criador sede o seu nome para criatura que ganha vida e se eterniza,a obra supera o criador.

Apresentada no Congresso Nacional de Técnicas das Artes do Fogo (CONTAF) e em Mairinque