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Alexandra do Carmo
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Alexandra do Carmo’s practice is focused on the studio as a conceptual field of study. The use of drawing is frequent in her work, though she also employs installation, video, photography and performance in an investigation of the dynamics of authorship.
Her work investigates the artist’s context in society-- the discourse between the artist and the public as a means of generating discussion towards a more lateral and less hierarchical contemporary artistic practice where the artist’s work is actively integrated into social life.
Micron 005, performance 2004; the studio table is used as the starting point for a spatially specific video/drawing relationship with the audience. The whole installation is formally structured around a long table equipped with projectors that
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display the results of the persons drawing at either end of the table directly onto an adjacent wall, establishing a situation where the role of the viewer and the role of the author are crossed. Through the action of drawing, while facing one’s own face made large, each performer is confronted with the structure of their own thoughts revealed to others. Drawing works as a basic conceptual structure of thought.
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2006 series, drawing detail
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Argon Corporation, video (2005)-This still derives from a short period in the video where there’s a specific relationship between myself and one of the workers building my studio walls—the construction of the space serves as metaphor for the constituency of the subject as produced through the look of others. The confrontation that emerges during the process of construction serves the authors action.
The studio was build in 15 days as well the video-- both were displayed for a day and destroyed afterwards.
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2006 drawing series,50 drawings 49 x 33 cm each, pencil and color pencil on paper;drawing details.
In the 2006 drawing series, one is lead through a narrative; the author is being portrayed as a chimpanzee. In each drawing he looks directly at the viewer. Inside his eyes, like a mirror image, one can see a studio scenario; a table, a chair, a window; initially the position of the chair creates the look and/or facial expression of the monkey.
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2006 series, drawing detail
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The image changes from that of a single monkey unable to see the outside of his own actions and his own space to an active and social being. Using the metaphor of the subject [as or not as] a monkey, Do Carmo transforms this being into one interested in collective engagement and social activity, opening his studio practice to the exterior.The drawings are progressively showing a figure in relation to the expanding and contracting architectural elements of the studio. The Drawings contain notations of perceived mistakes as a testimonial to the drawing process, becoming closer to a diagrammatic situation.
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