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Instant Poetry:
Semantics and Politics Expression of Mariana Vassileva
MARIANA VASSILEVA in dialogue with LIU XUJUN
23 AUGUST 2014
13:00 at MOMENTUM Berlin
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
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19:00 at Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai
Time_Art_Impact Dialogue #4 takes place simultaneously via live-stream between Shanghai and Berlin.
The discussion will be accompanied by the screening of Mariana Vassileva’s Morning Mood (2010), and the newest addition to the MOMENTUM Collection, Vassileva’s The Color of the Wind (2014).
Mariana Vassileva was born in Bulgaria in 1964. Since graduating from the Universität der Künste in 2000, Vassileva continues to live and work in Berlin. Working across varied mediums such as video, sculpture, installation, and drawing, Vassileva’s practice is concerned with the poetry that lies beneath the quotidian and the routine. Based upon observation of daily life, her works respond to an element of playfulness inherent in artist and viewer alike. With the curious gaze of a voyeur or of an urban anthropologist, the artist observes people and their surroundings in order to capture a moment of poetic imagery. Watching, and the distance it implies, are both method and subject of a body of work reflecting on human concerns familiar to us all: communication, cultural displacement, relations with self and other, loneliness and the humor hidden within the rhythms of the day-to-day.
As her artist’s statement asserts, she “transforms objects, situations and manners, and presents them in another reference on a lyrical level. … In this process, one is animated toward a heightened sensibility of daily variations.”
Liu Xujun is a cultural critic and feature editor of ‘Art World’, mainly focussing on poetry, literature and film reviews and with a specific interest in the theories of Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault and in semiology.
Interpreter: Jinwen, Associate Professor of the School of Foreign Languages at Fudan University.
Mariana Vassileva in dialogue with Isabel de Sena:
Mariana Vassileva screening and response by Liu Xujun: