Cuando el gesto deviene materia. Caso de estudio: "Aggregate" de Alexandra Pirici (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 2017)

Abstract

Since the 1950s, a genealogy of artistic and tentative practices has explored the complex relationships between the material and performative environments. It will be in 1968 when the term "dematerialization", enunciated by Lucy Lippard and John Chandler, produces a debate that reflects the multiple possibilities of how the dematerialization process and the resulting "performativity", is related to the material. Discussion that we will use as a framework to locate the operations that take place when matter when matter overflows the physicality of the physical object, being perceived as action and/or "situation", with the intention of observing them in the opposite direction: when the action becomes material charge. " Aggregate" (Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 2017) by Alexandra Pirici, take place as an object of interest to observe the gesture as a specific action, whose accumulation, embodiment and flow compose a landscape that transcends the immateriality of movement, adopting a material presence.