Cinthia Marcelle Belo Horizonte, b. 1974
"I belive that the video is never strong enough to feel the process. Normally, I use images, the clothes that Maria wears during the performance, and aslo the museological sign with the description of the performance."
- Cinthia Marcelle
Marcelle, based in São Paulo, records the impact of her initiatives on the city's everyday chaos through video and photography. Her work reorganises disorder formally, creating situations that challenge conventional behaviour with humour and connections, in order to facilitate new ways of thinking and behaving.
Her work, which spans videos, large-scale installations, drawings, photographs, and small objects, is characterised by a critical yet poetic approach. It explores the contradictions inherent to human life in urban environments. Marcelle engages with a variety of groups, including industrial workers, farmers, activists, musicians, and museum staff, in choreographed interventions designed to facilitate analysis of class, labour, and hierarchy systems. Her work explores the interconnections between collective relations, power, memory, education, empathy, and love. She has exhibited her work in numerous prestigious venues and her work is part of several major collections, including Tate Modern, MoMA, and MACBA.
Marcelle's international career is marked by participation in numerous prestigious biennials, such as Havana (2005), Lyon (2007), Mercosur (2009 and 2013), São Paulo (2010), Istanbul (2013), Sharjah (2013 and 2015), and Berlin (2018).
