Rafael Sanchez: The Limit As The Body Approaches Zero

Rafael Sanchez:

Winner of the 2008 Ida Applebroog Award at Exit Art, will presented a series of new performance pieces and documentation from the past ten years of his work. Sanchez's performances often bridge the spectacle of street life with the meditative interiority of private rituals. During this exhibition, the artist staged performances that provoke questions about issues as diverse as masculinity, sexuality, gentrification, and bodily limits.

In deceivingly simple gestures and epic endurance feats, Sanchez uses his body to carry ideas about the performative conditions of daily life in the city and how it is inscribed with desire, pain, musical rhythms, absurdity and poetry. Sanchez demands that viewers make a "psycho-educational commitment to enhancing his or her own perception of reality."

In an early work titled Back to Africa (2000), Sanchez wandered around New Jersey in white face, carrying a suitcase and waiting for a bus that never arrived. In a more recent work, Calienté/Frio (2007) the artist traced the migration process of two women from Cuba to America during the 1960s. The artist, dressed in a light colored suit and hat and carrying a packed suitcase, submerged himself in a tub of water that alternated between near boiling and below freezing as interviews with the two Cuban women played in the background.

Performance Artist:
Rafael Sanchez

Produced, Cameraman & Editor:
Jonathan Hyppolite

Gallery:

Exit Art
475 Tenth Ave
New York, NY 10018

Websites:
Exit Art: http://www.exitart.org/index.html
Jonathan Hyppolite: http://idoltomorrow.tumblr.com/
Rafael Sanchez: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rafael-Sanchez-Performance-Artist/216067758507

Email:
Rafael Sanchez: sanc2rafa@aol.com
Jonathan Hyppolite: Jonathanhyppolite@gmail.com

Category:

Education

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