Pauline Boudry y Renate Lorenz
galleries 7 y 8
All the Things She Said
Taking its title from a new work featuring the activist and DJ Chelsea Manning, All the Things She Said explores how sound can become a queer language for the expression of mourning, hope, and desire. In dialogue with what Renate Lorenz and Pauline Boudry call “additional performers” ―consisting, in the case of their presentation at the MUAC, of a set of blinds, some microphones and speakers, a sliding door, smoke, and various other objects―, the exhibition examines how sound and visual pleasure can serve as powerful allies when speaking fails.
In their first solo show in Mexico, the Berlin-based duo explores different aspects of sound: through bodies moving in concert, outside of the constraints of linear time ((No) Time); through music as a celebration of life in the face of violence (All The Things She Said); and through the voice in a song haunting the ghosts of a colonial building in Spain (The Glass is My Skin). In addition to these performance-based video installations, the duo’s sculptures draw on the tension between speaking out as a means of liberation and remaining silent as a powerful form of resistance. In these works, sound and silence convey a queer potential in practical terms: a non-identitarian force for creating community.
Artists: Pauline Boudry (Lausanne, Switzerland, 1972) y Renate Lorenz (Berlin, Germany, 1963)
Curator: Alejandra Labastida.
