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Alexandra Bachzetsis

ALEXANDRA BACHZETSIS

notebook Kurimanzutto 26 June–2 August 2024 New York
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The New York debut of Alexandra Bachzetsis’ Notebook is a profound and lustful exploration by the performer of her own biography as a dancer, choreographer and artist. The piece was not created in isolation, but within the framework of a dialogue, a method developed by Bachzetsis especially for this project. With her dialogue partners: Lies Vanborm, Safiya Sinclair, Michel Auder, Emi Curty, Zeltia Robin, Marco Delgado, Nadine Fuchs, Lili-Mar-lo Delgado Fuchs, Mélissa Biondo, Loren Tschannen, Antoine Weil, Owen Ridley-DeMonick, Dorota Sajewska and Alban Schelbert, she developed a performative installation in which the encounters with the others can be found again in the form of material and immaterial traces, voices, remains. A dance dialogue with Antoine Weil is (re) performed in part of SOLO live and the whole piece is accompanied by live sound composed by Alban Schelbert.

Themes such as lust, sexuality, excess, innocence, pain and ephemerality are ad-dressed in the form of performative notes that manifest themselves in a plurality of voices, images, bodies and objects. The notebook as an indispensable companion of the artistic process, as a private archive of creative work and as a storehouse of ideas for imagined future projects thus reflects Bachzetsis’ artistic affinity for the fragmentary, sketchy, unfinished in creative and performative thinking processes. Here, the body becomes a physical archive of other bodies, the most subversive form of presentation of experience as well as a place of permanent mediation bet-ween past and present, event and documentation, liveliness and mediality, origina-lity and quotativeness.Text by Dorota Sajewska

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About the Artist

Greek-Swiss artist and choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis explores the codes that govern gesture and movement, exploring the intersections of performance, feminism, pop culture, and dance. She is a two-time winner of the Swiss Art Award, and has performed at significant institutions including the Tate and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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About the Gallery

In November 2022, kurimanzutto opened a 6,500 square foot space at 516 West 20th Street in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. kurimanzutto in New York represents an extension of the original gallery in Mexico City: this reaffirms its mission to create new spaces and situations that will transmit the gallery’s spirit, where the artist is central to its existence. With this new project kurimanzutto seeks to establish even stronger connections to artists, institutions, and art professionals who have accompanied them across their evolution. It is a way to maintain and confirm their commitment to the development of the artistic current that lives and breathes in the city. The physical presence of kurimanzutto in New York will both invite and enable this type of happening.

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Kurimanzutto contemporary art gallery in New York United States
Kurimanzutto
516 w 20th street, New York, United States
+1 212 933 4470
http://www.kurimanzutto.com

Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday: 10 am – 6 pm
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