SALON POPULAIRE (KUNSTSAELE BERLIN)
Opening Wednesday 09.02. 18:00-21:00
daily 11:00-20:00
Forms of collectiveness in the western industrialized countries were deeply affected by the recent changes in the economic order. In various moments in the recent history of Brazil, the importance of the labor movements has been reflected in artistic production – notably in theater and cinema. In this new work by Wendelien van Oldenborgh the massive strikes in the São Paulo industries of the late ’70s form a background for reflecting today’s changing conditions of labor and the effect this has on the contemporary ‘self.’ As in her previous work, this installation takes as its point of departure circular relationships between women, labor, public voice and cultural production.
Pertinho de Alphaville is made in collaboration with a group of women with various roles within a jeans factory near Alphaville, São Paulo and a member of the Teatro Oficina. Their stories, readings and performance are shared and filmed on location in Teatro Oficina and in the Wearplay Factory. Video material from this active encounter has been transferred to slides and edited into a montage of interrelating dialogues and scenes. A specially conceived architectural structure extends the encounter into the exhibition space.
Wendelien van Oldenborgh is an artist based in Rotterdam. Recent works include: Lina Bo Bardi: The Didactic Room (Van Abbemusem, Eindhoven 2010), Après la reprise, la prise (Contour Mechelen 2009), Instruction, 2009, Lecture/Audience/Camera, 2008, No False Echoes, 2008, Maurits Script, 2006. Her work has been exhibited in the last years at the Generali Foundation, Vienna, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Muhka Antwerp, A Space Gallery Toronto, Art Sheffield, ICA London, in the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and at the Istanbul Biennial 2009.
Brasil / Netherlands 2010; Running time: 20 minutes; Format: architectural setting with slide projection, filmed on HD video transferred to slides; Language: Portugese with English subtitles projected separately; With the voices of: Lilian Quela dos Santos, Claudia Yammine, Ana Lucia Vieira de Moraes, Rosemary Paiva, Ana Teresa de Silva Riquena, Consuelo Luna, Maria de Fatima Alves de Oliveira, Mirian da Silva Vasconcelos, Sandra Soares Prata e Fernanda Bouchat; Camera: Heloisa Passos; Sound: Tiago Bittencourt; Make-up: Rosemary Paiva; architecture: Milica Topalovic; co-produced by: 29th Biennial of São Paulo; with the support of: the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB); Courtesy the artist and Wilfried Lentz Gallery, Rotterdam.
