Video Performance | 5’17” | 2015
In this performance, artist Vera Junqueira puts the body and her own life at the risk
of the other. Sitting on a chair, she allows strangers to come over and cut her hair.
The record, performed as a minimalist anti-narrative, without sounds or dramatic accents,
allows one to perceive the artist’s fragility in becoming available, open to the other,
as well as the different and subtle ways of approaching. Fear, intensity and fragility
are some of the topics covered in this essay on the risks of human relations.
Creation and Performance: Vera Junqueira
Direction: Muriel Paraboni
Images: Muriel Paraboni, Rodrigo Viegas and Fábio Osório
Editing and Post-Production: Muriel Paraboni
About
An empty chair, an acrylic box and silence tell the public the imminence
of a ritual. As an image composing the space of the gallery, the scene immediately conveys the solemnity that awaits those who approach it.
In Cut me now! artist Vera Junqueira provoke a reunion between
reflection and sensitive experience, making the public complicit in a kind of subtle and perfect crime, which otherwise will spare no one.
Performance has tracesof conceptual art: action, ephemeral in itself, is designed to leave traces, reports, impressions. For this, word, photograph, video and object vestiges were used as testimonies of what happened.
Shooting was done by means of three simultaneous cameras, each one focused entirely on an object. Edition respected the linear, mechanical and repetitive manner as the performance developed, as in a modern sacrifice.
Exhibitions
Cut-me now! – Solo Live Performance | Art Gallery Fundarte – Montenegro, Brazil – MAY-2015
Cut-me now! – Solo Exhibition | Art Gallery Fundarte – Montenegro, Brazil – MAY-2015
Urdumes – Solo Exhibition | Espaço Cultural Vila Flores – Porto Alegre, Brazil – SET-2016
