Da Natureza dos Afetos

 

Da Natureza dos Afetos

Collective exhibition

Casa da Avenida

15.02.2025

Desinflamatório

 

In Desinflamatorio, MAx Provenzano appears in a black suit alongside an 85 cm globe, establishing a tense relationship between the body and the world. The performance unfolds as a living metaphor for the planet’s current condition, marked by climate crises, geopolitical conflicts, and forced displacements. The inflated surface of the globe acts as a fragile, vulnerable extension of the global environment, evoking the precariousness of ecosystems and the instability of human borders.

MAx manipulates the globe with gestures oscillating between care and friction, suggesting how human forces influence, shape, and simultaneously wear down the Earth’s symbolic structure. This gesture resonates with other works in his career, where the body becomes a device mediating between personal experience and collective tensions, exploring the duality of being both subject and object, observer and observed.
The black suit serves as a neutral canvas, stripping the body of specific references to focus attention on the action itself and its symbolic weight. The act of inflating, deflating, or simply holding the globe becomes a silent choreography reflecting the tension between control and loss, expansion and collapse, the personal and the collective. This dynamic echoes themes of migration and mobility present in MAx’s work, where constant movement is both a physical act and a metaphor for adaptation and resilience.

After the performance, MAx encapsulates the deflated globe and presents it in the exhibition as a slide or capsule of the world, a material remnant that condenses the memory of the act and its symbolic weight. This gesture transforms the object into an archive of planetary fragility, a visual echo of how human actions leave indelible marks on global memory.

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MAx Provenzano

Espaço Santa Catarina

16/01/2025

19:00

<vertebral> is an exhibition by visual artist MAx Provenzano @maxprovenzano that explores insomnia as a medium of execution within the creative process, highlighting its ability to fragment time and sharpen perception. Through sculptures, video projections, and slides in a darkened space, the show invites viewers to immerse themselves in a sensory landscape where images become the vertebrae of a fragmented and ambiguous mental state. Darkness acts as a frame that amplifies the tensions between wakefulness and sleep, generating a dialogue between the body, mind, time, and suspended space.

Design @a__fns

Special thanks:

@parei_e_olhei and @atelierarteria

@venusatlisbon

@a__fns

@del_baul_el_betun_

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 Darkness not only frames the works but also invites the viewer to inhabit the space as a body in transit, stripped of certainties, navigating between lights and shadows that evoke the vertebral architecture of the body and thought.

<vertebral> is an exhibition by visual artist MAx Provenzano @maxprovenzano that explores insomnia as a medium of execution within the creative process, highlighting its ability to fragment time and sharpen perception. Through sculptures, video projections, and slides in a darkened space, the show invites viewers to immerse themselves in a sensory landscape where images become the vertebrae of a fragmented and ambiguous mental state. Darkness acts as a frame that amplifies the tensions between wakefulness and sleep, generating a dialogue between the body, mind, time, and suspended space.