Trojan Horse Behind Glass is a program between brackets. Together with artists Elen Braga and Lyz Parayzo, curator Laila Melchior proposes a takeover of two months of the NICC vitrine in Brussels. The two chapters of the program propose a dialogue with the urban emplacement of the vitrine and its broader context discussing issues of transparency, visibility, diversity, neighborhood, and strategies for cohabiting among peers.
Chapter II - Cuir Cuir, by Lyz Parayzo
Cold metal and soft pink leather meet each other in Lyz Parayzo’s new series of sculptures. Blending desire and violence, attraction and repulse, her sculptures can either dance, hanging from the ceiling, or lay still, as if in intervals of action.
Parayzo has notably worked for a long time with her Bixinhas, a series of sculptures whose title translates in Portuguese as little critters and as the little gays. Their forms stem from the Critters, milestones by Brazilian artist Lygia...Clark. Circular saw blades with meeting axes, the Bixinhas add a touch of organicity to Clark’s work insofar as they imply not only folds and interstices but also very specific and socially prejudiced forms of life.
For the presentation at the NICC vitrine in Brussels, which marks Lyz Parayzo’s first exhibition in Belgium, the addition of leather in works that carry some of the forms referencing Clark’s sculptures point a subjacent step towards organicity in these works. The new series highlights duplicity that is not binary as the materials alternate indefinitely, and the folds and interstices suggested by Clark now look like flesh. Parayzo presents a disassembled body made of metal, which is not the armor but that is rather gutty, a prosthetic machine that dances.
Cuir Cuir deals with non-binarism bringing together the Latin American version of the Queer Theory in its attempt to decolonize and phoneticize the term into Castellano and Portuguese notion of Cuir. It also contemplates the material in the sculptures, the link to the dynamics of power, violence, and desire referencing to erotic fashion, such as BDSM, in which leather garments are present.
Entrada actualizada el el 28 jun de 2021
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