MERCEDES AZPILICUETA AND HER “DANCING TABLES” IN C3A

By Álvaro de Benito

Mercedes Azpilicueta (La Plata, Argentina, 1981) lands with her dancing tables at the Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía (C3A) in an exhibition curated by Verónica Rossi and Jimena Blázquez. A visual and performance artist based in Amsterdam, her artistic practice proposes in her multi-layered works a meeting place between the past and the present through her protagonists and their expressions, some physical -but not corporeal-, such as voices; others, material, such as forms and texts; and others of a more intangible nature such as memory and remembrance.

MERCEDES AZPILICUETA AND HER “DANCING TABLES” IN C3A

In his work of action, we can also recognize the knowledge and the record of it, a documentation that acquires the rank of concept when he goes into the history of art or the most cultured literature to popular music or street culture, where he finds the characters for his performative actions and video art. Beyond vindicating the totality of the body with all its defects and possibilities, Azpilicueta presents in these dancing tables a proposal that revolves around this historiographic option.

Mercedes Azpilicueta. Las mesas danzantes can be seen until March 9 at the Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía (C3A), Carmen Olmedo Checa, s/n, Córdoba (Spain).

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