RIVANE NEUENSCHWANDER
2020-04-27Among the most influential Brazilian artists working today, Rivane Neuenschwander’s practice explores the roles of chance, order, control, collaboration, and emotion through a wide range of perspectives and materials. Employing external elements — such as social interaction and natural processes — the artist has developed a unique language to produce complex ideas and experiences. Drawing specifically upon the legacy of Brazilian conceptualism, folk literature, and popular culture, Neuenschwander’s work examines language, nature, geography, and time as they relate to history, fear, and anguish. Widely known for her use of an ephemeral lexicon, the artist probes social interactions through an acute political lens.
Central to this exhibition is the artist’s ongoing research of psychological spectrums and how fear, sexuality and violence influence our culture and politics. While the works on view stem from the current political landscape in Brazil, their impetus traces universal truths and global political trends.
Opposite – Trópicos malditos, gozosos e devotos 14, 2020
Exhibition runs through to June 6th, 2020
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
521 West 21st Street
New York
NY 10011
