DIS EM BODY
An exhibition of artworks by Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2021 Highly Commended Artist
Thiago Sancho
Curated by Anna Bondarenko
On display at the Ashurst Emerging Artist Gallery, 10th January - 30th March 2022
Thiago Sancho
Curated by Anna Bondarenko
On display at the Ashurst Emerging Artist Gallery, 10th January - 30th March 2022
As a professional theatrical dancer, Sancho perceives his most recent works through the prism of dramaturgy. For him, the body embodies a vessel that carries various characters with their fables of life and, at the same time, is in constant motion.
The title of the exhibition per se represents a complex semantic game, as does the philosophical narrative behind the show and the artworks, sublimating the artist's reflections on the leading theme of Sancho's practice - the body and its movement, its transformations and in metamorphosis, while in motion, over its lifetime. The specially created body of work is marked by a shift from floating kinetic sculptures disembodied to static corporeality. Sancho's objects, nevertheless, are full of dynamism and create a unique visual language of a symbiotic interweaving of the surrealist fantasies of Morris Desmonds, the simplicity of Lucio Fontana's art povera ceramics.
DIS EM BODY, is Thiago Sancho's first solo show and is an ode to the female body.
The exhibition is split into two series: Eve and Williane, each represented by six unique sculptures.
Turning to the first woman, Eve, whose sin continues to be projected onto all women for centuries, Sancho exposes structural sexism within this historical narrative that has permeated the behaviour of our contemporary society since genesis. With the series "Williane", Sancho bridges the gap between biblical Eve and today's woman, reflecting on the power of transformation of society and the human body itself.
The title of the exhibition per se represents a complex semantic game, as does the philosophical narrative behind the show and the artworks, sublimating the artist's reflections on the leading theme of Sancho's practice - the body and its movement, its transformations and in metamorphosis, while in motion, over its lifetime. The specially created body of work is marked by a shift from floating kinetic sculptures disembodied to static corporeality. Sancho's objects, nevertheless, are full of dynamism and create a unique visual language of a symbiotic interweaving of the surrealist fantasies of Morris Desmonds, the simplicity of Lucio Fontana's art povera ceramics.
DIS EM BODY, is Thiago Sancho's first solo show and is an ode to the female body.
The exhibition is split into two series: Eve and Williane, each represented by six unique sculptures.
Turning to the first woman, Eve, whose sin continues to be projected onto all women for centuries, Sancho exposes structural sexism within this historical narrative that has permeated the behaviour of our contemporary society since genesis. With the series "Williane", Sancho bridges the gap between biblical Eve and today's woman, reflecting on the power of transformation of society and the human body itself.