acts 2021 // DIE AUSSTELLUNG // Meritxell Aumedes

In the act of © Meritxell Aumedes

The outbreak of Covid 19 reached me in the act of planning and carrying out a big move. Inspired by the situation of the glassware in the moving boxes, I gave voice to what could have been a wine glass:

“Four walls and a ceiling above the head, so tight that I can feel my skin rubbing the cardboard.

I have been catalogued as fragile.

After years enduring the sun, suddenly something happens and someone decide how you should live your life, or rather how you should not live it. From one day to the next you are encapsulated in a box. There is no light. There is no air.

It is hard to imagine that life can be so volatile. Everything we took for granted, the big blue sky above our heads, the big gatherings of people laughing …

And now the only thing to do is    wait.

Wait that this is over and someone else decides once more how I can continue living.”

The Spanish performance- and video artist Meritxell Aumedes is based in Berlin and presents her work internationally. Beyond her roots in the dance field we find examples of her multidisciplinary artistic practice in installations, performances, stage visual design or dance films.

For her stage video design she has teamed up with different choreographers in Sweden, Germany and Italy. Her last video art work, a collaboration with Emanuele Soavi, premiered in February 2020 in Leipzig.

Her audio-visual installations have been exhibited in diverse art galleries and festivals around Europe, and her dance films have been selected for multitude of international screenings in Europe and America. Aumedes most recent dance film was displayed in Mexico in May 2020.

Aumedes holds a MfA in Contemporary Performative Arts from the Gothenburg University, a dance diploma from the University for Music and Dance in Cologne and multimedia certificates from the Open University in Barcelona.

www.mam-artist.com

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