Anaïs Horn & Pedro Zylbersztajn

RGR Gallery presents The Afterwake, an exhibition that brings together a project by Anaïs Horn (Graz, Austria; based in Paris, France) and recent work by Pedro Zylbersztajn (São Paulo, Brazil).

Under the curatorship of Gabriela Rangel, the exhibition refers to the idea of time as an echo similar to the grooves produced by a boat when navigating a river, leaving the trace of its movement imprinted on the water with reverberating undulations until it dissolves. The title pays tribute to a homonymous feminist poem by Adrienne Rich where the voice of the poet narrates the care that a woman dedicates to a patient in a journey from day to night to assume the autonomy of her feminine identity as a series of waits, sacrifices and losses.

Horn and Zylbersztajn poetically create a kind of necropsy of the visual apparatus of modernity through ghostly figures that wander around a room like a Nietzschean Dracula or places emptied of content and, therefore, of meaning, liquidated in an endless wait that only it is recorded as a conceptual exercise in filmic ekphrasis or as the remains of a royal opening cocktail transformed into the object-archive of a happening. Although different, the works of Horn and Zylbersztajn converge in showing the experience of photography or cinema emptied of meaning as provided with other functions and uses in a time dominated by the affective techniques of entertainment.

— Fragment of the curatorial text by Gabriela Rangel

Image: Pedro Zylbersztajn,Três Digestões [Three Digestions], 2023. 3-channel video, 4:3 Looped