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Alexandra Pirici

Photo by Andrei Dinu

Bucharest, Romania

Alexandra Pirici has cultivated a boundary-defying artistic practice that fuses dance, sculpture, spoken word, music, and performance. She choreographs ongoing actions, blurring the distinction between performer and audience. Her projects often explore site-specific histories, institutional hierarchies, the presence and limits of the body, and the function of gesture in art. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the New Museum, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; Tate Modern, London; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; and Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, among many others. She has also participated in Skulptur Projekte Münster, the Venice Biennale, Manifesta 10, and the 9th Berlin Biennale.

CAB 3 Contribution

Project Overview

Re-collection, 2018–ongoing

Alexandra Pirici’s practice fuses dance, sculpture, spoken word, music, and performance. Her projects explore site-specific histories, institutional hierarchies, the presence and limits of the body, and the function of gesture in art. Re-collection is an ongoing action in which performers embody and give new form to memories, sensations, existing or fictional objects (from artworks to nature), events, sounds, and gestures, producing a living environment that is both strange and familiar. Situated in the Grand Army of the Republic Rotunda of the Chicago Cultural Center, a memorial to Civil War veterans, it conjures references that are both internationally circulated and locally relevant, iconic and obscure, generally recognizable or personally significant. Space is created in relation to, and as a relation between, living structures and movement. Remembering but also un-fixing, destabilizing history and meaning, the work is a living, constantly shifting collection of mutating shapes and configurations, all up for reinterpretation, fleeting, and scaled to the human body.

The City is the Site