Act 12: Patrícia Dauder Horizontal/Orbital
07.05.2009 - 04.07.2009
Patrícia Dauder’s drawings and films call for careful, conscious observation – for their apparent simplicity belies great complexity and very dense material. These pieces are created by slowly laying down a series of layers.
Each of Dauder’s drawings is made up of layers are made up of overlapping pieces of paper to create the final piece. Each piece of paper, each unit within these constructions, contains a series of links, lines, networks, etc. which in their final setting, and in relation to the other units of paper, finally come together to form spaces. Her drawings expand in depth and density, giving the medium a more dynamic nature; they evolve like a living being. These pieces are not presented as stable objects; movement, instability and shift are there from the start and can be traced back to their origins.
Her first film related to the outside, Surfers (2005), was filmed in a single fixed shot. Dauder deliberately chose to return to the origins of cinema and to film an event, an action that structures the whole film in an act of observation. Editing is what stands out most in her film Cutsurf (2009), and the final result becomes an abstract construction. As research into the possibilities of non-narrative approaches in film, Flow (2009) explores the possibilities of observing extremely basic materials such as air and water.
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