Sebastian Mahaluf’s:
Measures of Relationships
May15th - June 5th

“Measures of relationships”- consists in relating the collective performance with the construction of a structure based on the location of the participants - spectators in the space. The idea is to reverse the roles between spectator and artistic piece. To develop together with the audience a linear structure in space, marking the measures and dimensions thereof, thus manifesting the ways of how we relate, both hierarchically, and in a single body that is capable of transforming and relating through movement and the balance.

The geometry is the main object of research in my artistic production. This research is divided in two lines of work: The first one refers to the analysis of shapes in order to highlight specific features of the space an the second one is the study of the body understood as a performance tool. In both lines I look to focus my work on simple or pure geometry, to demonstrate in the experience the ephemeral objectivity of artistic production.

Why to work with the space? because the space tells us much about us and our own time. Thus, empty space condenses the contradictions of our society, images and dreams. Why I work with my body and your body? because they exist in the space. From my first exhibitions in the 90s I have had motivation to explore it and develop it. Since then I work with the geometry in the space.

Why? because I need to understand each part of the space that surrounds me. We live in the space. We are full of the space all the time and there is a space between us. When I’m doing an installation I’m trying to find something invisible in the space. Invisible, but present. Something latent. Because this invisible thing is what exists between us. Is the possibility to take a part of the another person. In many of my projects I use elastic bands creating installations in which my body may or may not be present. The elastic bands postulate a structural tension within the institutions also the breaking of it. Its materiality in all its expressions interests me.