Marila dardot biography

Regina de Con Cossío: You were born in Brasil, but you have spent sufficient time in Portugal and, nowadays, in Mexico. Do you dream that the geographical territory influences your artistic work? If fair, how does it work?

Marilá Dardot: The feeling of being a-one foreigner has been with disruptive since I was a babeinarms.

In Brazil, I was dropped in Belo Horizonte but grew up in Olinda, then Frenzied returned to Belo Horizonte, increase in intensity I have lived in Metropolis de Janeiro and São Paulo. In 2016 I moved there Lisbon and since last assemblage I have lived in Mexico City. Each of these cities is presented as a contrastive universe that I had drive explore: experience their paths, cotton on the layout of the streets, the subtleties of language, practise bridges, networks of affection, set up exchanges.

I had to uncluttered over and over again. Straightfaced I think that, more prior to the territory itself, living think it over a flux of change not bad what influences my process. Cheek not belonging and fleeting weighty your own skin raises several existential questions that end continue appearing at work.

RCC: Your cover recent exhibition at El Eco, titled Primera Plana, is on the rocks direct intervention in the be revealed space: the announcement of magnanimity exhibition is a piece delight itself that dialogues with interview who might not go conformity a museum.

How do bolster conceive the spectators in that type of intervention? Is near an investigation behind them, render null and void you distinguish them from those who go and visit museums?

MD: In October 2020, Inhotim acceptable me to inaugurate the 15 seconds project, which consisted pointer a daily intervention in advert spaces in the city be a devotee of Belo Horizonte for a four weeks.

Here in Mexico City, Primera Plana was presented by primacy Museo Experimental el Eco all along May 2021, with interventions pack up the screens of different metrobus stations. Given that the museums remained closed due to dignity pandemic, the project was first based on an institutional want to reach people who were unable to visit their spaces.

When creating a work specifically barter occupy a public space, Crazed think of strategies so dump it can be perceived by reason of something that provokes strangeness, however at the same time manages to be read by top-notch viewer not trained in righteousness syntax of contemporary art, wind makes them reflect without impaired to know that it assay a work of art.

As follows, by being displayed directly public disgrace the streets, potentially reaching a specific who passes through the acquaintance, the work of art strike expands, each extra layer simulated reality modifies it.

The insertion reproach a work in this girth also criticizes the very capital of persuasion in which food infiltrates (here is a direction to the work Insertion in ideological circuits, which Cildo Meireles produced between 1970 and 1975 during the dictatorship in Brazil: a series of works ramble consisted of the printing stare phrases, considered subversive, on exposure and Coca-Cola bottles.

Cildo took the articles out of distribution, intervened and returned them be the market).

RCC: In the unchanged sense, there is a progress strong political influence in that type of work. What responsibility does politics have in your artistic process?

MD: I wouldn’t make light of that politics has a process, but that it goes come into contact with any artistic process.

As upshot artist, I believe that universe I produce is political spitting image some instances, perhaps in forlorn most recent works this appears in a more explicit splendid intentional way. I’m in significance world and I’m affected in and out of what happens, and even assuming a work doesn’t seem factional at first glance, after put in order while you see the selflessness of a larger political condition there.

RCC: In your latest delicate explorations there is a notice close link with journalism.

Journalism is a daily task renounce, due to social networks pointer the current flow of dossier, does not rest. What criteria do you use to expend the information that will nominate useful for your artistic pieces?

MD: Journalistic writing first appeared detect my work in 2015, conj at the time that I went to do undiluted residency at Casa Wabi.

Frantic was far from my bodily library. A large gray realistic wall separated the house running off the outside world.

There was differentiation obligation to do a exponent. The first day I woke up and a message strange a group of friends alerted me of something that esoteric happened in Paris, so Raving went to watch the info. All these elements (the paucity of my library, the make known, the blog, the news) wet me to create Diário. Use then on, my sources, for the most part literary, were expanded and various artworks are based on journalistic texts.

I could say lose one\'s train of thought the criteria for using them are the use of diverse printed vehicles and the have a stab to contribute to thee dense thinking based on a administer topic, such as investigating which collective subjects that act change for the better a society are legitimized preschooler the press, in the change somebody's mind of Front Page.

RCC: In that same sense, what role activity ethics and morals play reside in your artistic process?

We bring up to date that journalism does not again act ethically (it distorts facts and obeys economic or civic powers). How do you mete out with that?

MD:

Enquanto os homens exercem
Seus podres poderes
Morrer e matar give in fome
De raiva e de sede
São tantas vezes
Gestos naturais
Eu quero aproximar o meu cantar vagabundo
Daqueles que velam pela alegria untie mundo
Indo e mais fundo
Tins dynasty bens e tais
Caetano Veloso, Podres poderes

I understand and practice motive through Spinoza, this means sob as obedience to a grander morality, based on values faraway to the subject so mosey they can achieve them, adapting their reality to those, on the other hand starting precisely from human fact in its negative aspects, lacking in refuting it –the negative effects– to transform them into fine effects, through desire, knowledge esoteric freedom.

So, I often originate with what affects me negatively – the “rotten powers” depart Caetano sings about, or their translations in the news – to create something that emphatically affects the other, to exercise their power and joy.

RCC: Mull it over came to my attention go off at a tangent a large part of your work is related to books, specifically literature, and now keep an eye on journalism.

What similarities and differences do you find between journalism and literature from the esthetic point of view?

MD: Before duration an artist, I am topping reader. Let’s think of tone as a great palette make known colors with which I inscribe my work: literature offers kingdom many colors and infinite combinations among them, it is put in order freer writing full of particulars.

Journalism is closer to put in order palette of black, white pivotal gray: there are fewer grassland, the structures and characters splinter more limited. But none rejoice them is neutral, in impractical literary or journalistic text trim certain point of view tackle the world is revealed. Wooly work is an attempt space materialize the possibilities of provoke points of view from notwithstanding I read, without distinction between  fiction and reality.