7th MAY 19:00. Poliana Lima
In conversation with the exhibition Ría by Jorge Satorre
Body in River is a performative action created for the CA2M Museum in dialogue with the exhibition Ría by Jorge Satorre.
The idea behind the work presented by Poliana Lima is grounded on the relations and potential tensions between materiality and representation, a tension found in the Jorge Satorre exhibition with which Poliana’s body engages in dialogue.
Just as objects and artefacts have their uses and possible fields of meaning, the body is also constantly under tension, the tension of being matter, that is, flesh, liquids and sounds, which, in turn, have their uses—behaviours and codes—determined by the contexts in which they are framed. Thus, the body of the museum, the body of the visitor, is not the same body as the body of the theatre or the body of a festival.
Lima uses the elements of the body to build a choreography-route, a choreography-river through the exhibition in which the body is transmuted from the most everyday thing to the most alien: towards its materiality.
‘I visited Jorge Satorre’s show Ría. I am inside River and impacted by its materiality. My body is inevitably enveloped by Ría.
I read the interview with Satorre and at some point he mentions that his sculptural pieces are articulated in an oscillation between fulfilling a productive purpose and no longer doing this.
My body in Ría also has the opportunity to oscillate between its doing—behaving with its productive functions and no longer doing this.
Body in River aims to question these purposes. What is the solidity of a body?’
IDEA AND BODY: Poliana Lima
SOUND SPACE: Miguel Álvarez
Crédito: Poliana Lima
BIO OF POLIANA LIMA’S COMPANY
Poliana Lima is a choreographer, dancer and teacher. Trained in sociology at UNICAMP (Brazil), she synthesises pathways in the body and makes them the core of her expression and inquiry. She creatively explores the possibilities of creating poetics onstage capable of communicating with the audience in a simple yet profound way. Topics like identity and memory are recurring in her creations, joined by the relationship between creation and pedagogy, which she considers an essential part of her work as an artist.
In the past fifteen years, Poliana has created eight long and six short works and dance projects. She has been an associated artist with Condeduque—Madrid (2018–2020) and has received support from Teatros del Canal, CND—Pantin, Festival Dias da Dança—Oporto and Aerowaves, among others.
