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Biography

Alexandra Pirici (RO, 1982, based in Bucharest) is an artist who uses choreography both for its economy of means and for its critical energy, as a means of questioning history, monuments and public memory. Re-collection is an ongoing, performative action, built around the notion of collecting, while subverting traditional understandings of the term. Real and fictional objects – works of art and forms of life – are transformed into embodied memories. Objects become movements, unlabelled, with no need for classification. The boundaries between these new objects – actions / gestures / moving sculptural forms – are porous and less defined such that we never quite know where each “object” begins and ends.

Alexandra Pirici, based in Bucharest, has a background in choreography and works within the visual arts, with sculpture, performance, music and text. Among her works are “Leaking Territories” for the Muenster Sculpture Projects, 2017, “An Immaterial Retrospective of the Venice Biennale”, (with Manuel Pelmus), for the Romanian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale, projects in public and museum spaces for the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Art Basel Messeplatz, Tate Modern London, the 12th Exposition suisse de sculpture in Bienne, Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, New Museum – New York, Manifesta 10 in Saint Petersburg.