2016 - ongoing
Installation with fabrics
Performance with dancers and a choreographer
Commissioned by Times Art Center Berlin
Courtesy of the artist
Molecular Love is a long-term project by Argentinian artist Mercedes Azpilicueta that began in 2016 at the Rijksakademie van beelden kunsten in Amsterdam. It traces an evolving score written by the artist and materialized into a performative installation. Since the beginning (Act 1), the score has been fed by several shifting collaborations and rehearsals with dancers and singers. The second act evolved as a textile and performative installation at Lunds konsthall in June 2020. The third act of Molecular Love (a Mestizo act) continues to define and shape its multiple body fed by migrating organic matter, taking the work of Argentinian philosopher Maria Lugones (1944-2020) on multiplicity and mestizaje as a starting point this time. The exhibition space is inhabited by a group of bodies in constant interaction with moving costumes, decor, video and sounds, visual scores, and wall texts. These fleeing bodies shape reciprocal and affective relationships, yoking and conjugating together across scale, speed, synchronicities, and complexities.