Alexandra Pirici presents a new large site-specific installation with live action (performance + music + singing) at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. With her expansive new work “Attune (Tuning)”, Alexandra Pirici explores the ways in which human beings resemble, influence and tune each other to give rise to complex structures, be they chemical, physical, mineral or social.

Pirici has created an imaginary landscape in the historic lobby of the Hamburger Bahnhof and interweaves active sculptural elements with live actions and musical pieces of his own choreography and composition. In this simultaneously archaic and futuristic environment, chemical reactions, mineral formations and physical phenomena act alongside living bodies in recognition and celebration of the ongoing process of attunement of living and non-living matter.

The exhibition explores how self-organization works, something the artists featured in the video attempt to depict. There are numerous self-organizing systems in our environment that generate their own stable, fully tuned structures. Shoals of fish are an example of this, as are formations of birds in the sky or dunes. Likewise, there are patterns that form as a result of chemical reactions. Visual artist Alexandra Pirici is interested in these processes without apparent guides.

Born in Bucharest and a trained dancer, Pirici introduces artists into her works; movement and the body serve her to make what has been fixed flow again, be it history, knowledge or memories. For Pirici, everything material is made of the same stuff: the human being, the stone, the crystalline formation, the grain of sand. “We are just different constellations of materials,” she explains.

Alexandra Pirici (1982) is an artist with a background in choreography whose artworks have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale (at the 59th edition in the Central Pavilion in 2022 and at the 55th edition in 2013 in the Romanian Pavilion), at the New Museum in New York (2018), at Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017), at Tate Modern London and Tate Liverpool (2016), at Manifesta 10 St. Petersburg (2014) or at the Centre Pompidou Paris (2014). This commission allows the artist to develop her practice on a larger scale and incorporate both fixed physical structures and live action.

 

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Live action / performances every day from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm (until October 6) at Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin.

(Cover photo: Installation view, Alexandra Pirici. “Attune, 2024”, Hamburger Bahnhof – National Gallery for Contemporary Art Courtesy of the artist, Hamburger Bahnhof and Audemars Piguet / Edi Constantin.)