DUBLING, 2010
Porto Alegre, Brasil.
Elida Tessler is a teacher of the Department of Visual Arts and the Visual Arts Postgraduate Program at the Institute of Arts at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS. PhD in History of Contemporary Art at Paris I University– Pantheon-Sorbonne (France), where she lived from 1988 to 1993. Between 2009 and 2010, Tessler completed her postdoctoral at la École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – EHESS and along with The Centre of Art Philosophy– UFR of Philosophy – Paris I University– Pantheon-Sorbonne. As a researcher for CNPq she develops investigations around questions that relate art to literature, in other words relating words to images. Tessler founded, together with Jailton Moreira in 1993 and coordinated until 2009, the TOWER, a place dedicated to production and research in Contemporary Art, in Porto Alegre. She maintains a research group called .p.a.r.t.e.s.c.r.i.t.a., where she articulates production and critical reflection from the texts of artisitcs and the prescence of words in contemporary art productions.
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DUBLING, 2010
Presented at the IN TRANSITION exhibition. Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA, CIFO Collection. DUBLING is a system created from 4311 gerunds taken from the novel Ulysses by James Joyce, bringing together 4311 cylinders, 4311 corks with printed words and 4311 postcards. This work goes to form part of the CIFO collection – Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation.
DUBLING, 2010
DUBLING, 2010
DUBLING, 2010
DUBLING, 2010
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MY NAME IS STILL RED, 2010. Work carried out after receiving an invitation from the Ibere Camargo Foundation to participate in the Artists Invitational Program at the Engraving Workshop in October 2010. On cotton paper, starting with the technique of dyed water (silkscreen process) and etching, a book was made that reprinted chaper 31 of the Orham Pamuk romance “My Name Is Red” with references already made to the romance in Tessler’s previous piece “My Name Is Also Red” in 2009. Book dimensions: 76 x 55 cm.
MY NAME IS STILL RED, 2010.
MY NAME IS STILL RED, 2010.
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VOUS ÊTES ICI (YOU ARE HERE), 2010. This piece was presented for the first time at the collective exhibition “There once was a drawing”, in the Ecarta gallery, Porto Alegre-RS, curated by Gabriela Motta en 2010. Motivated to read the novel In search of lost time by Marcel Proust during a year of living in Paris, the artist produced a stamp with the inscripción “You are here” using the same symbol as the Parisian urban transport organisation RATP, that is used on the maps of the city. During the reading, all the “time” words were highlighted in the book. In this way, time is not conceptually lost.
VOUS ÊTES ICI, 2010
VOUS ÊTES ICI
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THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES HUNTING FOR WORDS, 2007. Work presented for the first time at the individual exhibition at the West Gallery, São Paulo-SP. This piece was carried out off the back of the novel The man without qualities by Robert Musil. The affirmative frase that gave the book its name led the artist to highlight all of the text’s adjectives, which amounted to 30301 words. The work reunites 134 harsh cotton fabrics, each of which have 40 adjectives in the form of a word search. Taking into account that some adjectives have been omitted, the artist develops two artefacts each containing two books, with one of each pair untouched: the first is called “The man actually without qualities” where the first group of identified adjectives are crossed out in black pen; the second is called “The man without qualities, yet” where the adjectives omitted in the first reading appear in white corrector fluid. A book of the artist forms part of the exhibition entitled “” “The man without qualities hunting for words” containing the reprinting of the 134 word search grids, positioning itself in a crossword format.
THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES HUNTING FOR WORDS, 2007
THE MAN WITHOUT QUALITIES HUNTING FOR WORDS, 2007
