CASA VIVA Gallery

11/03/2022

THE BODY IN THE SUBSTANCE. 2022.
A Performance by Veronica Peña pena.live.art
During ZONA MACO ART WEEK 2022 for the show “LIVING IN TIME” organised by and
CURATED BY SAMANTHA OZER at MUSEO EX TERESA ARTE ACTUAL, INBA, MEXICO CITY.
FEBRUARY Verónica Peña's The Body in the Substance (2018-2022) is an ongoing project in which she considers notions of ritual, time, the counteraction of violence, and the promotion of human harmony. Through this durational work, Peña will submerge herself underwater while a metamorphosis transforms her body's appearance. In the confined space of the water tank, time presents as both suspended as if she is in a primordial or embryonic world and acutely dire with her breathing at threat.

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10/03/2022

BUBBLE BREATHING. 2022.
A Performance by Miao Jiaxin
During ZONA MACO ART WEEK 2022 for the show “LIVING IN TIME” organised by and
CURATED BY SAMANTHA OZER at MUSEO EX TERESA ARTE ACTUAL, INBA, MEXICO CITY.
FEBRUARY In the premiere of Bubble Breathing (2022), Miao Jiaxin stands inside a glass box, blowing soap bubbles dyed with red pigment. As a microphone amplifies each of his breaths via the speakers set up in the space, the bubbles explode onto the walls. The red pigment slowly covers the glass layer by layer as the performance progresses, marking the artist’s respiratory cycle. Through the accumulation of time, the presence of breath intensifies, and the existence and the potential threat of breath are made manifest.

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10/03/2022

TIMELESSNESS. 2022.
A Performance by Arantxa Araujo
During ZONA MACO ART WEEK 2022 for the show “LIVING IN TIME” organised by and
CURATED BY SAMANTHA OZER at MUSEO EX TERESA ARTE ACTUAL, INBA, MEXICO CITY.
FEBRUARY In Timelessness (2022), a new performance created for this occasion, Arantxa Araujo, in collaboration with LUM Arte y Medios y Vicios Ocultos, explores the nature of time by embarking on and breaking cycles of fluidity. Following a set of prescribed actions centered around ritual involving melting wax and icy water, she constructs a mask only to remove it and leave a piece of herself behind. Set against the light interplay of the projection she has choreographed and sound Mariana Uribe has scored, the motions repeat and upend at different intervals and speeds, ultimately dissecting our perception of presence and existence.

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08/03/2022

NAVIGATING HUMAN TRACES. 2022.
A Performance by Alejandro Chellet
During ZONA MACO ART WEEK 2022 for the show “LIVING IN TIME” organised by and
CURATED BY SAMANTHA OZER at MUSEO EX TERESA ARTE ACTUAL, INBA, MEXICO CITY.
FEBRUARY 2022.
This performance investigates human development through the history of our relationship to water. After spending extended periods within this major territorial force on this planet and attuning himself to a different pace, his research looks to shift a perspective of framing time on land. He also considers the historically violent interactions that water facilitated (of colonialism and conquest) and now experiences when humans extract oil from the sea. Inspired by recent sailing experiences on México’s Pacific Coast, Chellet will perform a series of intuitive movements atop a collection of maps.

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04/02/2022

Very excited to announce the performance program “Living in Time” next Friday, February 11th from 7-9 pm. Hosted at Ex Teresa Arte Actual], a historic museum in centro, the artists respond to the architecture of the former church to take stock of our current relationship with time.

Ex Teresa Arte Actual] El viernes 11 de febrero se presentará en Ex Teresa Arte Actual el programa de performance "Viviendo en el tiempo" que reúne a cuatro artistas que hacen visible el poder de transformar pequeñas acciones y repeticiones rituales para confrontar el momento actual, en el que nuestra relación con el tiempo ha sido irrevocablemente cambiada.

Participan: Arantxa Araujo , Alejandro Chellet .chellet , Miao Jiaxin y Verónica Peña . Curaduría: Samantha Ozer .

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Image credit: 'The Substance of Heaven (I),' Performance Art, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, United States, 2016 ©️ Copyright Verónica Peña

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