La Plasti Ciudad del Cuerpo #3, Amanda Gatti. Performance documentation. CRUCE 2054 exhibition, Galería CRUCE. Photograph: Pedro Mendes.

Performance Cycle: Abierto Infinito. Lo que el cuerpo recuerda

Amanda Gatti

Performance: TRAJECTORY

Friday, March 6 – 7:00 PM

Trayectory takes the form of an action in which the artist moves through the main aisle of the art fair while dragging a substantial assemblage of interconnected objects, fastened to her shoelaces. The gesture reactivates this zone of circulation, transforming it into a charged spatial field where body and matter enter into dynamic reconfiguration. The objects function as extensions of the moving body: they exert tension, redirect momentum, interrupt cadence, and recalibrate each step.

The performance is situated within the artist’s ongoing inquiry into the ways we inhabit—and are reciprocally inhabited by—the spaces around us. For several years, she has worked with objects recovered from the public sphere: obsolete fragments, remnants of everyday use, and discarded materials that, once painted blue, acquire renewed visibility and an autonomous sculptural status. These materials form an evolving archive, activated through gesture and displacement.

The action examines the tension between durability and ephemerality, between what has been discarded and what insists on persisting. It conceives movement as the simultaneous activation of the material and the immaterial, proposing an encounter between gesture, the sculptural, and that which continues to accompany us long after it has ostensibly been left behind.

About Amanda Gatti

Amanda Gatti (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1996) is an artist and researcher whose practice spans performance, video, photography, and installation. Her work interrogates the intersections between body, object, and space, examining how we inhabit—and are, in turn, inhabited by—the environments that surround us. Rooted in experiences of displacement and in close observation of domestic and urban settings, her practice positions the body as both mediator and archive, transforming found objects, spatial configurations, and everyday gestures into ephemeral architectures and relational constellations.

She holds an MA in Live Arts and Visual Culture from Museo Reina Sofía / University of Castilla–La Mancha (Spain, 2023), and a BA in Audiovisual Production from the School of Communication, Arts and Design at PUCRS (Brazil, 2018), where she was awarded competitive scholarships, including support from Santander Universidades. In Spain, her work has been presented at institutions and platforms such as Museo Reina Sofía, Fundación Antonio Pérez, Galería Nueva, CRUCE, and Teatro Pradillo, and has also been featured in exhibitions and festivals across Brazil, Spain, Germany, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She has undertaken residencies and research laboratories at Live Art Ireland, La Casa Encendida, and Azala Kreazio Espazioa, among other international programs.

In parallel to her individual practice, she is co-founder of PÁR, a nomadic platform devoted to experimental and critical approaches to cinema and contemporary art, through which she develops curatorial initiatives and public programs. Her professional practice further extends to teaching, writing, and cultural mediation.