Cinthia Marcelle: A Conjunction of Factors

Reflecting the development of her practice through recurring series and different media, “A Conjunction of Factors” evokes associations and connections between Marcelle‘s concerns and ways of working. In her practice, similar gestures are performed on radically different scales. Materials change form, travelling through installations, photographs and moving images.

Driven by a desire to disorganise the hierarchies and binary oppositions that shape our everyday interactions, the interconnected layers of Marcelle‘s practice express an abiding concern to reimagine the dynamics of collectivity.

With works from 1999 to the present, combining evocative moving images and photographs with large-scale installations and subtle spatial interventions, “A Conjunction of Factors” brings into focus the distinct aesthetics of Marcelle‘s work, from the creation of atmospheric mise-en-scènes to the development of a poetics of accumulation, multiplication and repetition. The exhibition also draws attention to Marcelle‘s established practice of involving diverse participants in her artistic production, from manual workers and musicians to people she encounters in her everyday life. The actions they perform for the photographs and films are somewhere between staged and spontaneous, appearing at once fictitious and completely real. In combination with materials and colours that evoke specific contexts, the involvement and representation of others in his work alludes to the hierarchies of work, class and race that pervade our everyday interactions and the dominant social and political order.