Functional Metaphors for Bodies in Space (2019)

Functional Metaphors for Bodies in Space is a solo exhibition by Tales Frey curated by Hilda de Paulo. The exhibition brings together a set of aesthetic propositions through which the Brazilian artist generates extensions of his own body in dissimilar devices through performing actions performed live, for video or photography. We can understand this body of the artist as a living political archive, establishing different analogies in the emphases given to its members that connect with the environment, with the other or that materialize in an object.

1) Tales Frey, To Be Privy, 2017. Video, 3’50’’;

2) Tales Frey, The Body Never Exists in Itself – Variant I, 2018. Video, 4’13’’;

3) Tales Frey, Il Faut Souffrir pour Être Belle, 2018. Video, 2’03’’;

4) Tales Frey, To Be Privy, 2017. Photo, 103 x 70 cm;

5) Tales Frey, Getting the Mold, 2013. Photo, 50 x 33,3 cm;

6) Tales Frey, Getting the Mold, 2013. Video, 1’04’’;

7) Tales Frey, Island #1, 2016. Video, 8’21’’;

8) Tales Frey, Island #2, 2016. Video, 1’51’’;

9) Tales Frey, Island #3 (Polyptych), 2016. Photos, 40 x 60 cm each;

10) Tales Frey, To Be Privy – Object, 2017. Objeto, 63 x 24 x 11,5 cm.