VERONIKA KELLNDORFER AT 14TH CURIBITA INTERNATIONAL BIENNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART
September 23, 2019
Installation view of Veronika Kellndorfer, The Sources of Light in a Dark Space, 2019 Photo: Leco de Souza
Veronika Kellndorfer continues her investigations on architecture as real space and as fiction, presenting Sources of Light in a Dark Space, a site-specific installation at MON, Museu Oscar Niemeyer in Curitiba. Slide projectors, artificial lighting together with the enlarged curtain of Lina Bo Bardi's Casa de Vidro, evoke a mysterious space formed of colored shadows and reflections. This body of work stems from her 2015 solo exhibition at the Casa de Vidro in São Paulo, home of celebrated Italian-born Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi. During this time Kellndorfer also engaged with the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer and gardens of Roberto Burle Marx, finding their approach to Brazilian Modernism nascent to a new scope of reference.
This year marks the 14th edition of the Curitiba International Biennial of Contemporary Art. Curated by Tereza de Arruda and Adolfo Montejo Navas, Open Borders is the theme that aligned the edition. The thematic proposal is a dialogue of deconstruction of the notions of physical boundaries, and the transformations they undergo over time and from the relations between subject and space. "The concept of border does not only belong to territory or geography anymore. It hasbeen conceptually expanded and is now part of a bigger universe, one made of broader questions and, overall, more transversal ones. There is already a plural imagination that touches aspects of understood natures." - Tereza de Arruda, Curator.
Open Borders is on view from September 21st, 2019 to March 1st, 2020.