Project
Gravedad (Performance)
Gravedad
Live performance
El Espacio 23, Miami
Thursday, December 5, 2024
Gravedad is a live performance by artist Carlos Motta and eight Miami-based performers, commissioned by El Espacio 23 for the opening of its exhibition “Mirror of the Mind,” on Thursday, December 5th 2024 at 10am in the Allapattah warehouse.
Developed in collaboration with the performers, Gravedad presents a sequence of actions where the performers find cautious and tender ways to hold, carry, and endure the weight of their bodies for as long as they are able, creating scenes of sustained endurance. Set to an electronic musical soundtrack designed by Dani F. Amaro Rio with Luisa Lemgruber, the work asks the question: What does it take to support a life?
Gravedad uses Motta’s homonymous 5-part drawing—recently acquired by the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, and on view in the exhibition—as a performance score. The drawing depicts a scorched landscape where hundreds of humans urgently care for one another. The figures attentively hold, carry, and drag each other, visibly dealing with the weight of the bodies but determined to help each other persist amidst a dry desert where only a few patches of green grass suggest the hope of survival. Motta and performers produce a work that builds upon the themes of care, endurance, weight, gravity, and survival.
