The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance

The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance

Catherine Wood, Vincenzo De Bellis, Mary Ceruti, Emma Lavigne

ISBN-10: 1731705840 · ISBN-13: 978‑1935963233 · 2020

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"Presenting works from the early 20th century to today, The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance examines the notion of stillness as both a performative and visual gesture, featuring practitioners who have constructed static or near-static experiments that hover somewhere between action and representation as they are experienced in the gallery space. The exhibition investigates performance from the perspective of the object rather than the body, examining how performance has reinterpreted traditional artistic media. Stillness and permanence are qualities typically seen as inherent to painting and sculpture-consider the frozen gestures of a historical tableau or the unyielding solidity of a bronze figure. The Paradox of Stillness, however, expands the artwork's quality of stillness to accommodate uncertain temporalities and physical states, investigating works that merge objects with human bodies suspended in motion.

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