Solo by Katia Politzer at Centro Cultural Correios RJ presents human scale sculptures, in addition to large facilities
“Triage” is an anthropogony, creation of figures with some human characteristics and imaginary stories, having the portrait and the head as image categories. Here, what interests the artist is the current debate around human groups, basically involving four vectors: identity movements, multiculturalism, migrations and xenophobia, data in abstract terms, refuting any symptoms of a non-artistic politicity.
With this proposal, Katia Politzer presents her solo show, at Centro Cultural Correios RJ, from day 21 July. Occupying Galleries A and I on the 3rd floor, the exhibition consists of installations (besiege, Capture, Motinada and Trace and Banquet of the Outcasts) and sculptures (Saga, Fortuna and Matroca), unpublished, made from 2020. materially hybrid, (ceramics, glass, iron, fabric, cement, silicone and polyester), vary from small to large format, with human-scale molded parts, using your own body or models. the heads, faces, masks and body transfigurations sometimes lose their archetypal human configuration, and become misshapen or deconstructed, being able to reveal internal psychic processes or perhaps announcing the post-human of the end of the Anthropocene.
“Triage is the sorting process that determines priorities. Since the X century, contemporary society has undergone major changes in its structure, fragmenting cultural landscapes of class, genus, sexuality, ethnicity, age and nationality, leading to crises and violence generated by intolerance to Diversity. And Identity Crisis, although the scale of the world is no longer that of the individual subject, but from the collective. I recognize that as a privileged elderly white woman I often have no place to speak. So that now, without taking the spotlight from those who have, I position myself in a contemporary world that is constantly changing, with a critical view against any kind of injustice and social segregation”, says Katia Politzer, raising some questions.
“What changes are happening in those looking for themselves? How to include different faces in the human community, bodies, unique wishes and stories, often doomed to invisibility, to the aesthetic and political inexistence?”, she asks.
Learn more about Katia Politzer
Katia Politzer is a visual artist, having participated in free courses in contemporary art in the United States and in Rio de Janeiro (Parque Lage Visual Arts School and Escola Sem Sitio – with Celeida Tostes, Lelia Gonzalez, David Cury, Efrain Almeida, Franz Manata, Alexandre Sa and Marcelo Campos). Graduated in Arts from EBA/UFRJ.
Katia Politzer's work is developed in projects. Depending on the conceptual basis, can be drawing, painting, sculpture or installation, in formats from small to large, and with varied relationships with the History of Art. From everyday objects, investigates issues of memory and personal relationships – from affection to exclusion. In Sculpture of inorganic materials (glass, ceramics, fabric) and organic (bread) research processes of natural transformation by fire, air and time - or determined by man, focusing on intersection states and ambivalence. The decriminalization of marginalized or culturally neglected repertoires is a large part of the artist's recent research, all of neo-expressionist lineage. From the debate about sexual orientation to gender identity – passing through the forms of social segregation based on color, age, ethnicity, religion – everything interests you. Artists like the Brazilian Tunga, the German Thomas Schutte, the American Christina Bothwell and the French Louise Bourgeois are direct references to the notions of Art that manipulates. Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.
Service:
“screening”
Opening: 21 July, farm, from 17h to 19h
Visitation: from 22 from July to 3 September 2022
Cultural Center Correios RJ
Galleries A and I – 3rd floor
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Address: Rua Visconde de Itaboraí, 20 - Center – RJ
Time: Tuesday to Saturday, from 12:00 to 7:00 pm
Free entrance
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@politzerkatia