The Bahia-born artist presents her video Cais do Corpo [Wharf of the Body], featured on the exhibition Nada levarei quando morrer, aqueles que me devem cobrarei no inferno [When I die I will take nothing, those who owe me I will charge in hell], on view at Galpão VB, and discusses how it originated from an invitation to create a new piece on the Mauá square, in Rio de Janeiro’s port area. Departing from the universe of prostitution in the wharf, the work tackles the process of contacting the women of the Flórida night club, who are the work’s subjects. In contrast with her previous works, Virginia discusses how she resorted to film techniques to create a visual aesthetics that reveals the sublime in the sex worker’s bodies. By facing the performativity of bodies as a social and political practice that mix together eroticism and resistance, Virginia breaks the barriers that prevent us from seeing and identifying ourselves with the underlying inventiveness and creation.
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