WORLD VIEWS.
Curated by stvn girard
L'Aise, Quebec City, Canada. March 2020.
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World Views was a very introspective performance looking into the artist life.
While unravelling several rolls of receipt paper between two columns Alejandro created a paper wall representing his life connections. For each strip of paper he installed across the columns he spoke out loud a person name or a place that he encountered trough his wander as an artist around the world.
He then faced the wall and while undressing himself he made a self portrait out of the clothes he was wearing and then drawn his own face onto the wall. While still facing to the wall the artist scrolled through his passport pages and for each stamp he had been given on his journeys, Alejandro banged on the passport for each stamp he had gotten in the recent years in an almost sequential movement creating a repetitive sound.
Lastly, the artist while naked and facing to the wall in silence holds hand with his self-portrait for a moment and then turns around to the public for one second, looks at everyone and runs very fast towards the wall of paper getting through it while going crazy happy dancing and singing all around the audience fully dressed in paper.
While unravelling several rolls of receipt paper between two columns Alejandro created a paper wall representing his life connections. For each strip of paper he installed across the columns he spoke out loud a person name or a place that he encountered trough his wander as an artist around the world.
He then faced the wall and while undressing himself he made a self portrait out of the clothes he was wearing and then drawn his own face onto the wall. While still facing to the wall the artist scrolled through his passport pages and for each stamp he had been given on his journeys, Alejandro banged on the passport for each stamp he had gotten in the recent years in an almost sequential movement creating a repetitive sound.
Lastly, the artist while naked and facing to the wall in silence holds hand with his self-portrait for a moment and then turns around to the public for one second, looks at everyone and runs very fast towards the wall of paper getting through it while going crazy happy dancing and singing all around the audience fully dressed in paper.
Photos: Yannick L. Coté
