Lygia Clark
in ‘An Act of Seeing that Unfolds: The Susana and Ricardo Steinbruch Collection’, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
10 November 2022 – 2 October 2023
‘Act of Seeing that Unfolds: The Susana and Ricardo Steinbruch Collection’, 2022, installation view, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Courtesy: © Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Lygia Clark in included in the group exhibition ‘Act of Seeing that Unfolds: The Susana and Ricardo Steinbruch Collection’ at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
‘An Act of Seeing that Unfolds’ puts forward an approach to the Susana and Ricardo Steinbruch Collection, a major repertory of different temporalities and geographies centred, first and foremost, on Latin American contemporaneity — particularly Brazilian — and the artistic practices that transpired in Eastern Europe across the second half of the twentieth century.
The pieces selected for the show pivot around the theory of gestures coined by Czech-Brazilian thinker Vilém Flusser. For Flusser, these rituals of perception — which can seem minimal and not respond to a specific causation — not only make our own aesthetic and affective recognition possible, but also underpin a cartography of relations and crossovers that join seemingly disparate artists.