Photo: Andreas Körner
ifa Gallery Stuttgart
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Camila Sposati
Breath Pieces
Camila Sposati, a Brazilian artist and researcher, approaches art with an experimental and interdisciplinary practice. She challenges various assumptions and categories that have shaped Western thought, including anthropocentrism, linear time, and the division between culture and nature. Breath Pieces, the artist’s first comprehensive solo exhibition in Germany, creates a unique experiential space that vibrates throughout the city of Stuttgart and builds on her artistic exploration over the past twenty years. The exhibition is a bodily experience of changing perspectives in three acts: at ifa Gallery, at Theatre of the Long Now at Wagenhallen, and at Theater Rampe.
The concept of Amerindian perspectivism stands for the cosmology of indigenous communities in the Amazon region in Brazil, and it comprises a multiplicity of realities – of animals, plants, and the Earth itself, all of which are closely interwoven with humankind. This way of experiencing the world and connecting with it is central to the artist’s project in Stuttgart. Sposati interprets perspectivism as a way of understanding the world as multiple subjectivities rather than a singular and objective reality, emphasising the interconnectedness and interdependence of all beings. In doing so, she highlights the importance of exchange between and the coexistence of plural temporalities, and stresses the mutual shaping of the human and nonhuman worlds.
Sposati's attention to the complexity of life in its interconnectedness vibrates from the energy centre within the exhibition at ifa Gallery to outside locations in Stuttgart. The artist engages and confronts herself with new contexts – with 'the other' and 'the unknown', which she permits to affect and transform her own self. For Sposati, Stuttgart is such an unknown territory that has its own geography and geology, social and political strata, as well as human and nonhuman inhabitants who have been specifically formed through migration.
This project is the result of a process of negotiation and conversation – the latter in the etymological sense of the word: living and acting together. The first act, a prelude to the exhibition at the Theatre of the Long Now at Wagenhallen, started on 1 April 2023. Tubes have been drilled into the ground in Stuttgart and samples habe been taken which has then metamorphose into earthen musical instruments to be filled with breath and played for and listened to by the earth. In the ifa Gallery, in the second act, several generations of these instruments are in conversation with themselves and the visitors.
The third act at Theater Rampe expands the process of communication and exchange. Sposati's clay instruments serve as tools and communicators, facilitating a breath-guided dialogue between individuals from the heterogeneous strata of Stuttgart. Through this interactive experience, participants are invited and inspired to explore the concept of 'the other' in their own lives and neighbourhoods, leading to a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them.
The Breath Pieces that Sposati creates embrace complexity, multiplicity, and contingency, encouraging us to consider new ways of comprehending the world and our place within it. By envisioning alternative futures, we are compelled to work towards achieving them. Through her art, Sposati invites us to broaden our perspectives, recognise the interconnectedness of all beings, and strive for a new understanding.
Biography
born in 1972 in São Paulo, lives and works in Vienna
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
From Within, Beneath and Beyond: Through Matter, Lombardi—Kargl, Vienna
2024
Coal, HOAST, Vienna
2023
Breath Pieces (Part II), ifa-Galerie, Berlin
Breath Pieces, ifa-Galerie, Stuttgart
2021
Corpos de Phonosophia, Residência Belojardim, Pernambuco
Phonosophia, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2018
Phonosophia, Goethe Institut - na Vila Itororó, São Paulo
2015
Glory Hole, São Paulo
2013
Earth’s Earth, Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York, USA
2012
When 2+2=0, Die Raum, Berlin
Green-Dyed Vulture, HICA-Highland Institute of Contemporary Art, Achnabat, Inverness
Darvaza, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo
Charting Revolution, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz
2011
Rescue Submarine Signal, Die Raum, Berlin
Gabion, Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, Sao Paulo
2009
Nucleation, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo
2007
Rescue Smoke, Paço das Artes, São Paulo
2001
The BBQ, Berlin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
CORPUS COSMOS, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala
2024
Nós - Arte e Ciência por Mulheres, SESC Interlagos, São Paulo
My memory isn´t mine, Krupa Art Foundation, Poland
Bringing Owls from Athens, Georg Kargl BOX x Callirrhoë, Athens, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
Body at Play, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2023
HARD/SOFT. Textiles and Ceramics in Contemporary Arts, MAK, Vienna
Here and Now II - Vienna Sculpture 2023, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna
37° Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Under the ashes, embers, Sesc, Sorocaba
We - Art and Science by women, Paco da Artes,São Paulo
Precious, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2022
trauma, dreams escape,13th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre
The devil to pay in the backlands, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna
37° Panorama da Arte Brasileira, MAM, São Paulo
2021
Sorry It´s a Mess, We Just Moved In!, Lamb Gallery, London
Cybernetics of the Poor, Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
2019
Echos of South Atlantic, Pivô arte e pesquisa, Galeria Athena, Rio de Janeiro
Belo Monte, Pernambuco, Brazil
2018
#elenão, LAMB Arts, London
Museu dos Futuros Possíveis, Centro Internacional de Convenções do Brasil/ SESI-Vitoria do Espírito Santo
Echos of South Atlantic, Goethe Institut, Salvador
Museu José Bonifácio, Rio de Janeiro
2017
The sky is still blue, you know…, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo
To Seminar, BAK. basis voor actuele Kunst, Utrecht
2016
The Earth Anatomical Theatre, Teatro Vila Velha, Salvador
2015
10th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Perception of art and Science, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
The garden of forking paths, Sobering Galerie, Paris
2014
3th Bienal da Bahia, MAM-Bahia e Museu de Arte Sacra, Salvador
Manifesto: poder, desejo, intervençã, Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malgoli–MARGS, Porto Alegre
Geografias da Criação, Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malgoli– MARGS, Porto Alegre
Arte e Patrimônio 2014, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
Neblina, Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul – MACRS, Usina do Gasômetro, Porto Alegre
Janeiro, Bendana-Pinel art contemporain, Paris
2013
Arte e Design, Torre Santander, São Paulo
Reforma e reivenção, Museu de Arte da Bahia-MAMBA, Salvador
Video Selection, Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris
Correspondências, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo
2012
Cibles, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris
Outra generacion, Blanca Soto, Madrid
Cromomuseu. Pós-Pictorialismo no Contexto Museológico, Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malgoli– MARGS, Porto Alegre
2011
Album, Galeria Baró, São Paulo
RAW - Lustwarande’11 - 4th Edition International Sculpture Exhibition, Tilburg
2010
Multiplique Boutique, Galeria Mendes Wood, São Paulo
Editions, Casa Triângulo. São Paulo
The Great Glen Artist Airshow, Highland Institute of Contemporary Art – H I. C A, Inverness-Hire
2009
Void of Memory, Platform in KIMUSA of Platform 2009, Seoul
Scream and Listen, 7th Mercosul Biennale, Porto Alegre
2008
Open studio, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
Active Forms, Eleven Rivington Gallery, New York
Form Instability, Institute of Brazilian Architects, São Paulo
Artist links, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, São Paulo
2007
Crystal Growth /Opening Studio, Gasworks, London
Comunismo da Forma: Som + Imagem + Tempo - Estratégia do Vídeo Musica, Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo
Video Links Brazil: na antohology of Brazilian Video Art. 1981-2005, Tate Modern, London
Living Level, Absolute Vodka-Sparte, São Paulo
2006
Convergência, Galeria Del Infinito Arte, Buenos Aires
Certamen Internacios de Artes Plasticas de Pollença, Museu de Pollença, Mallorca
Neobarroco, Galeria Leme, São Paulo
Videometry, Galeria dels Angèls, Barcelona
Vizinhos /networked art in Brazil, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
7º Salão do Mar, Casa Porto das Artes Plásticas, Vitória do Espírito Santo
Laisle entertainment – Video as Urban Condition, Paço das Artes, São Paulo
Paris é aqui, São Paulo
LATAM, Fundación Telefónica, Lima
Aderências, SESC Paulista, São Paulo
Paralela 2006, Pavilhão dos Estados, São Paulo
2005
Além da imagem, Centro Cultural Telemar, Rio de Janeiro
Prog: ME, Centro Cultural Telemar, Rio de Janeiro
El sutil Vertigo de la Imagen, Centro Cultural Parque de España, Rosário
Aderências- Mediterrâneo, SESC Paulista, São Paulo
Sex frjó egg, Woollenmaiden ProjectSpace, Reykjavik
Brief Encounter, 12 de maio de 2005, ReykjavikurAkademian, Reykavik
Portrait, Galeria Leme, São Paulo
Ocupação, Paço das Artes, São Paulo
2004
Exposição n.1, Galeria Leme, São Paulo
Fluxo de Arte Belém Contemporâneo, Museu de Arte de Belém (MABE) e Memorial dos Povos, Belém do Pará
Mostra de Video Paulista, Espaço Bananeiras, Rio de Janeiro
Cine Quintal n.1, Exo experimental, São Paulo
Framing Devices, The Agency gallery, London
Goldsmiths College Graduates 2003, Mirko Mayer Gallery, Cologne
2003
Insert, Cuchifritos Essex Street Market, New York
Take me seriously, Apriori Gallery, London
Made in UK, Arch Gallery, London
Dörgicsewineart, Pántlika Borház, Budapest
2002
The island and the aeroplane, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
X Salão de Arte de Goiá, Shopping Flamboyant, Goiania
April’s Fool, São Paulo
E(x)tra Bienal, São Paulo
2001
Chuckoo chuckoo chukoo, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
Lovesick, Bergens Kunstforening, Bergen
Future Perfect, Adam Street Gallery, London
Landscape Trauma in the age of scopophilia, The Gallery-Southward Park, London
Unchaperoned, Aroma Project Space, Berlin
Pandemonium Festival, Lux Cinema, London
EV+A - 25th Annual Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
Glamourhammer, Boxing Ring Samuel Becket, London
2000
Assembly, Stepney City, London
Pourquoi, Moulin de Heutrégiville, Reims
Living with a Dutch, House Project, Enlarger Road, London
Chroma, Mercado de Fuencarral, Madrid
Shotgun, Udstillingsstedet Peblinc, Copenhagen
Cool, Elephant and Castle House project, London
Rooftopp, 17th Star & Garter mansions -Putney, London
Degree Show, Goldsmiths College of London, London
Landscape, Institut of Contemporary Art- ICA - video projection: Leicester Sq., Convent Garden e Festival Edinburgh
non stop opening, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon
1999
non stop opening, Central Point Gallery, London
1996
Novíssimos, Galeria Fotótica, São Paulo
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