Performances and Videos Installations August 24 — August 25, 2013

ARTIST Camila Rhodi (BR/AU)

The question of absence, present throughout her works, creates a relationship with the audience that leads them to reflect upon their own stories involving this sensibility. With her body, her voice, texts and video installations she transforms in art the strongest experiences. The results are poetic, touching, humorous and, at the same time, acid statements of one person’s life as everybody’s life.

Camila Rhodi has been working since 2005 with autobiographical performances. Her first video installation ‘OVER 18 ONLY’ took part in the 15th Art and Media Biennale WRO 2013 in Poland, the feminist video ‘Long Time no Sex’ was invited to take part in some festivals in Germany, Sweden, UK, Slovenia and Russia. The live performance ‘Take me’ was the highlight of the critic comments in the 100˚ Grade Festival Berlin (HAU/ Sophiensaele) at the same year. Her last piece is the live performance ‘Do u wanna talk about it?’, the premiere was in the last Month of Performance Berlin. In 2010, sponsored by OI Futuro Institute, she did ‘A Dona do Fusca Laranja’, a multimedia performance inside a car. 2008 she did her first solo presentation ‘A Filha da Chacrete’. Both in Rio de Janeiro. Camila Rhodi studied Drama in Martins Penna Theatre School and has a BA in Communications. She also wrote the monograph ‘The Process of Creating Scenes from Autobiographical Performance’, which was developed as her final thesis for the Postgraduate Course on Aesthetics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Camila Rhodi was born in Brazil.

WORKS :

A possibility to love:
★ Premier: Video installation. A woman for a present in a gift package, a transcreation of a photo of the french photographer Guy Bourdin.

Over 18 only:
Video installation. A mixture of the funny, erotic and ironic stories of love affairs written in red on a toilette paper and a black and white serious story of violence.

Take Me:
Live performance. A self portrait that explores the artist’s personal history, cultural influences, and solitariness. The performance is comprised of both conscious and unconscious writing, interrupted silences, and painful, romantic images of the body.

Do u wanna talk about it?:
Live performance. Stories of sexual violence in front of the victim.

Ice:
Video documentation. The artist in a bath tube covered with ice.

www.camilarhodi.com
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