This video installation was originally presented at Elektra Gallery in Montreal in 2019. For Bienalsur, I will select its main components, to create a new and refined viewing experience. Because of it, some elements of the first registration were dismissed.
The work was produced through an extensive research that became a series of video performances. Every piece is based on an archive of body images that I collected through my research. I visited several museums, galleries, art venues, and archives in Italy in 2018, documenting artworks from the Antiquity, Renaissance and Neoclassical periods. Later, I combined these items with body images from digital platforms. The hashtag #pose, on Instagram, provided an endless update of worldwide users posting pictures where their bodies are purposely arranged for viewing. I also made web searches of anatomy, porn, advertising and pop culture. 
This repertory of images reiterates throughout the video-performances. The different universes are juxtaposed and dissolve into one another by the body that reenacts them. A body whose performativity contrasts ideas of automation, human agency and technology.
I would like to suggest that the installation be presented in a historical venue, which would foreground the dialogue between history and the present. The proposed set up consists of 4 video pieces displayed through screens and projections in 2 separate rooms. Finally, a sculptural object composed of a reflective sheet hanging from a stand.