Alexandra Pirici (RO, 1982, based in Bucharest) is an artist who uses choreography both for its economy of means and for its critical energy, as a means of questioning history, monuments and public memory.
Re-collection is an ongoing, performative action, built around the notion of collecting, while subverting traditional understandings of the term. Real and fictional objects – works of art and forms of life – are transformed into embodied memories of human and more-than-human presence on the planet, according to a set of parameters that become an algorithmic framework Objects become movements, unlabelled, with no need for classification. The boundaries between these new objects – actions / gestures / moving sculptural forms – are porous and less defined such that we never quite know where each “object” begins and ends.
Alexandra Pirici, Re-collection, 2018-2020, ongoing action, interpretation Michelle Cheung and Jared Marks, Museum of art and history Geneva, within the framework of the exhibition Dance First Think Later – Rencontre entre danse et arts visuels. Photo: Emmanuelle Bayart / Arta Sperto 2020
Alexandra Pirici, Re-collection, 2018-2020, ongoing action, interpretation Michelle Cheung and Jared Marks, Museum of art and history Geneva, within the framework of the exhibition Dance First Think Later – Rencontre entre danse et arts visuels. Photo: Emmanuelle Bayart / Arta Sperto 2020
Alexandra Pirici, Re-collection, 2018-2020, ongoing action, interpretation Michelle Cheung and Jared Marks, Museum of art and history Geneva, within the framework of the exhibition Dance First Think Later – Rencontre entre danse et arts visuels. Photo: Emmanuelle Bayart / Arta Sperto 2020
Alexandra Pirici, Re-collection, 2018-2020, ongoing action, interpretation Michelle Cheung and Jared Marks, Museum of art and history Geneva, within the framework of the exhibition Dance First Think Later – Rencontre entre danse et arts visuels. Photo: Emmanuelle Bayart / Arta Sperto 2020
Alexandra Pirici, Re-collection, 2018-2020, ongoing action, interpretation Michelle Cheung and Jared Marks, Museum of art and history Geneva, within the framework of the exhibition Dance First Think Later – Rencontre entre danse et arts visuels. Photo: Emmanuelle Bayart / Arta Sperto 2020
Alexandra Pirici, Re-collection, 2018-2020, ongoing action, interpretation Michelle Cheung and Jared Marks, Museum of art and history Geneva, within the framework of the exhibition Dance First Think Later – Rencontre entre danse et arts visuels. Photo: Emmanuelle Bayart / Arta Sperto 2020
Alexandra Pirici, Re-collection, 2018-2020, ongoing action, interpretation Michelle Cheung and Jared Marks, Museum of art and history Geneva, within the framework of the exhibition Dance First Think Later – Rencontre entre danse et arts visuels. Photo: Emmanuelle Bayart / Arta Sperto 2020
Alexandra Pirici, Re-collection, 2018-2020, ongoing action, interpretation Michelle Cheung and Jared Marks, Museum of art and history Geneva, within the framework of the exhibition Dance First Think Later – Rencontre entre danse et arts visuels. Photo: Emmanuelle Bayart / Arta Sperto 2020
Alexandra Pirici, Re-collection, 2018-2020, ongoing action, interpretation Michelle Cheung and Jared Marks, Museum of art and history Geneva, within the framework of the exhibition Dance First Think Later – Rencontre entre danse et arts visuels. Photo: Emmanuelle Bayart / Arta Sperto 2020
Alexandra Pirici, Re-collection, 2018-2020, ongoing action, interpretation Michelle Cheung and Jared Marks, Museum of art and history Geneva, within the framework of the exhibition Dance First Think Later – Rencontre entre danse et arts visuels. Photo: Emmanuelle Bayart / Arta Sperto 2020
Alexandra Pirici, Re-collection, 2018-2020, ongoing action, interpretation Michelle Cheung and Jared Marks, Museum of art and history Geneva, within the framework of the exhibition Dance First Think Later – Rencontre entre danse et arts visuels. Photo: Emmanuelle Bayart / Arta Sperto 2020
Alexandra Pirici, Re-collection, 2018-2020, ongoing action, interpretation Michelle Cheung and Jared Marks, Museum of art and history Geneva, within the framework of the exhibition Dance First Think Later – Rencontre entre danse et arts visuels. Photo: Emmanuelle Bayart / Arta Sperto 2020
Re-collection, 2018-2020
26th – 30th August, 2020
DANCE FIRST THINK LATER– An encounter between dance and visual arts, Arta Sperto, Geneva
