artnexus #47

Rivane Neuenschwander was born in 1967, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She currently lives between São Paulo and London. While she is interested in a particular poetics that seems to insist on the permanent transformation of nature, her work stands out for the use of the most diverse organic materials. Each one of the chosen elements, whether it is dust, ants, footprints, water, culinary spices, coconut water, etc., is treated as an autonomous system. To each one of them, she attaches a particular meaning, inviting the spectator to meet again with the value of small things that usually go by unperceived.

Her interventions in space are a silent invitation to rescue sensorial experiences with ephemeral elements that she reinstates with value. In her process of appropriation, she also uses materials that carry a strong domestic connotation. However, she transforms them in such a way that they become aesthetic objects. In her uncommon installations, there is a call for attention towards that which exists beyond what is casually seen. The artist uses a transgressive strategy to resignify organic elements that are part of daily life.

After a trajectory of exhibitions in New York, São Paulo, and London and of her interest in what —according to Verónica Cordeiro- could be named “organic minimalism”, she has recently started working in what places her work within a “serial conceptualism.”

IVONNE PINI