Tales Frey, To Be Privy – Object, 2017. Object, 63 x 24 x 11,5 cm. Edition: 3 + 2 P.A.
Acquisition Award of the City Council of Cerveira at the XIX International Biennial of Art of Cerveira, Portugal
Edition 1/3 belongs to the collection of the Bienal de Cerveira Museum, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
Wearing a pair of shoes with a four-foot entrance, I propose a two hours uninterrupted coexistence with Hilda de Paulo*, with whom I walk, in silence, the entire area bounded for action to take place. The design of the object forces our bodies to be placed facing each other and also this makes our steps seem to dance. During this time together, we explore the swings of our physical and mental states together until the end of time. Once the performance is over, the pair of shoes can remain on display along with the action video record and photography.
* At the time of the creation of the performance To Be Privy, Hilda de Paulo was still known as Paulo Aureliano da Mata. The artist began her gender transition in 2020, changing her name in the same year.
CREDITS
Performance by Tales Frey | Exclusive participation of Hilda de Paulo | Duration: 2 hours
TRAJECTORY
LIVE
[2021] Toll of Me. Not a Museum, Lisboa, Portugal.
[2021] What Can a Body Do? SP-Arte 365 and Verve Gallery, São Paulo-SP, Brazil.
[2019] A! Performance Festival. Akureyri Art Museu, Akyreyri, Iceland.
[2019] BienalSur. MUNTREF – Museo de la Inmigración (Sede Hotel de Inmigrantes), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
[2019] Sonora [+]. SESC São José do Rio Preto. São José do Rio Preto-SP, Brazil.
[2019] Exposição In Position of Dance. Curated by Daniela Labra. Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil.
[2019] SESC São José dos Campos. São José dos Campos-SP, Brazil.
[2019] 22èmes Rencontres Traverse Vidéo: “L’Expérimental recherche/art”. Librairie Ombres Blanches, Toulouse, France.
[2018] 86º Aniversário Rivoli. Teatro Municipal Rivoli, Porto, Portugal.
[2017] SESC Santana. São Paulo-SP, Brazil.
[2017] SESC Registro. Registro-SP, Brazil.
[2017] Athens Museum of Queer Arts (AMOQA), Athens, Greece.
AS OBJECT, PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO
[2021] Toll of Me. Not a Museum, Lisboa, Portugal.
[2020] Hot Offer. Galeria Verve, São Paulo-SP, Brazil.
[2019] Exposição Loving in Times of Cholera. Galeria Verve, São Paulo-SP, Brazil.
[2019] Movediça – III Mostra de Performance Arte. Liberdade Galeria de Arte. São Paulo-SP, Brazil.
[2019] BienalSur. MUNTREF – Museo de la Inmigración (Sede Hotel de Inmigrantes), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
[2019] Mostra IPêrformático. Centro Cultural José Octávio Guizzo, Sala Ignês Correa, Campo Grande-MS, Brazil.
[2019] 22èmes Rencontres Traverse Vidéo: “L’Expérimental recherche/art”. Cinéma Le Cratère,Toulouse, France.
[2019] 5th ARTAnkara Contemporary Art Fair. Ankara, Turkey.
[2019] Exposição Five Activation Tactics. Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura, Guimarães, Portugal.
[2019] PerfoArtNet: VI International Biennial of Performance. Manifiestos de Género, Raza y Relaciones. Asab, Bogotá, Colombia.
[2018] Galeria Zsenne Art Lab, Bruxelas, Bélgica.
[2018-19] Aesthetics of Movement. Online exhibition presented in collaboration with Stockholm Performance Art e Istambul Performance Art.
[2018] Tacão Rápido, Porto, Portugal.
[2018] Festival Internacional de Danza de Córdoba. Centro Cultural Alta Córdoba e Espacio 75, Córdoba, Argentina.
[2018] Body Landscapes Performance Art Festival. VerdensKulturCentret, Copenhagen, Dinamarca.
[2018] Conquista Ruas: Festival de Artes Performativas. Centro Cultural del Carmen, Valencia, Spain.
[2018] Acciones al Margen – Festival Internacional de Performance. Bucaramanga, Colombia.
[2018] Exhibition It’s All About Performativity. Curated by Elisa Noronha. Fórum Cultural de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal.
[2018] Exhibition Entanglements for a Body. Curated by Raphael Fonseca. Centro Cultural da Justiça Federal, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil.
[2017] SESC Araraquara, Araraquara-SP, Brazil.
[2017] 2nd PERFORM – OR NOT. Gallery 3,14, Tallinn, Estonia.
[2017] Convergência 2017. SESC Palmas, Palmas-TO, Brazil.
[2017] Solo exhibition To be Privy. Curated by Rob Garrett. Corner Window Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
[2017] XIX International Biennial of Art of Cerveira: From Pop Art to Trans-avant-garde. Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal.
Tales Frey, To Be Privy, 2017. Video, 3’50’’. Edition: 5 + 2 P.A.
Edition 1/5 + 2 P.A. belongs to the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Niterói (MAC Niterói), Niterói-RJ, Brazil
Tales Frey, To Be Privy, 2017. Photography, 150 x 108 cm. Edition: 5 + 2 P.A.
Individual exhibition To Be Privy, by Tales Frey curated by Rob Garrett at the Window Corner Gallery. Auckland, New Zealand, 2017. Photograph by Clinton Phillips
Performance To Be Privy by Tales Frey performed at A! Akureyri Art Museum Performance Festival in Akureyri city in Iceland in October 2019. Photograph of Akureyri Art Museum team
Video made by the Icelandic public television network Sjónvarpið to publicize A! Performance Festival held by the Akureyri Art Museum in Iceland
Performance To Be Privy by Tales Frey held at BIENALSUR at the MUNTREF Centro de Arte Contemporáneo y Museo de la Inmigración – Headquarters Hotel de Inmigrantes in the city of Buenos Aires in Argentina in June 2019
Performance To Be Privy by Tales Frey held at the Cultural Center of Municipal Art Hélio Oiticica in the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil in June 2019. Photographs by Angela Moss and Bernardo Feitosa
Performance To Be Privy by Tales Frey held at the 22nd Rencontres Traverse Vidéo: L’Expérimental {recherche / art} in the city of Toulouse in France in March 2019
To Be Privy (2017), by Tales Frey in his solo exhibition Five Activation Tactics. Center for the Affairs of Art and Architecture, Guimarães, Portugal, 2019
Performance To Be Privy by Tales Frey held at the 86th Anniversary of Teatro Municipal Rivoli in the city of Porto in Portugal in January 2018