Experimenter presents Alexandra Bachzetsis’ (b. 1974 lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland) first solo at the gallery and in India, Notes on Becoming that presents works from over a decade of the artist and choreographer’s practice.
Positioned at the threshold of multiple moments in histories of art, theatre and choreography, Bachzetsis proposes the body as a conceptual and physical form that is at once medium, process and substance, as she situates it “in-between” disciplinary spaces and histories. Bachzetsis embraces strategies of citation and appropriation to construct choreographies of the body that explore the ways popular culture provides source material for gesture, expression, identification, and desire as we continually create and re-create our bodies and identities.
The performative languages in Bachzetsis’ work since the early 2000s are fundamentally intersectional. Collaging and borrowing from diverse sources including popular music, cinema and television, fashion, advertising, online video clips, the history of art and photography, literature, architecture, sport, and pornography, Bachzetsis scrutinizes these systems of representation that together form the fabric of contemporary culture.
– Excerpted Text by Hendrik Folkerts
Positioned at the threshold of multiple moments in histories of art, theatre and choreography, Bachzetsis proposes the body as a conceptual and physical form that is at once medium, process and substance, as she situates it “in-between” disciplinary spaces and histories. Bachzetsis embraces strategies of citation and appropriation to construct choreographies of the body that explore the ways popular culture provides source material for gesture, expression, identification, and desire as we continually create and re-create our bodies and identities.
The performative languages in Bachzetsis’ work since the early 2000s are fundamentally intersectional. Collaging and borrowing from diverse sources including popular music, cinema and television, fashion, advertising, online video clips, the history of art and photography, literature, architecture, sport, and pornography, Bachzetsis scrutinizes these systems of representation that together form the fabric of contemporary culture.
– Excerpted Text by Hendrik Folkerts
