Mariela Limerutti Visual Artist, Argentina.


200 TIMES (YOU)
Red Wine, Two hundred laser-cut phrases in panásimo (host paper)
San Martín Cultural Center
San Juan/Argentina
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TWO HUNDRED TIMES (YOU)

Intervention at the exhibition "Hear, Mortals" at the San Martín Cultural Center, San Juan, 2010
Materials: Red Wine, Two hundred laser-cut phrases in panásimo (host paper)

In the exhibition "Hear, Mortals" organized in commemoration of the bicentenary of the country, the wineries offering wine tasting were part of this work. Visitors chose a phrase to intervene their glasses and drinking it with the wine. There were 10 different phrases, repeated 20 times each.

These simple and everyday phrases, were taking different directions out of context of their own origin. They were loaded, projected and they intimidated those who read them. Depending on the receiver, each sentence could be understood as a plain and daily speech or indicative of a loving intimate discourse. The fragile as extraordinary.

A written speech and a liquid component were combined by the action of the public making sense of it. Everyone who entered the game grabbed a phrase and resolved within himself, swallowing it, making poetry literally flow through his veins. The words dissolved into the wine opened up new interpretations.

The work was not a paint but was colored and stained; it was not a sculpture but played with the relief and the three-dimensional. There were no techniques characteristic of art, but technical operations and materials of other practices, such as the design, cuisine and even religion, which model the action towards an art communion proposal. Acting as a sacred event where, not the body but the human words, were eaten.

Wine and words signaled to discuss on a point within the discourse of the bicentennial, which doesn´t tell about the two hundred years of history and its linearity in time, but about an issue in this space here and now of a personal reality. Two hundred phrases on stage, related to a number in years, involving two hundred people to rethink the physical and mental inability to embrace this time in a present dominated by the simultaneous and the immediate, with a very precarious index to the past and the future. The transcendent in the work was the two hundred people at play, exposed physically to be intervened.

Phrases: That, a star! / collision of planets and fragmentation of bones / crosses seas, crosses time, crosses deserts / dematerialized me / there I found my map over the water then / they turn universe and I particle / I imagined that was absorbed by the way / bring me rain! / all these certainties are relativized / Forget? Neither a second