{"id":9898,"date":"2021-01-05T09:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T12:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/libros\/mercedes-azpilicueta-cuerpos-pajaros\/"},"modified":"2023-10-06T16:55:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T19:55:26","slug":"mercedes-azpilicueta-body-birds","status":"publish","type":"libros","link":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/books\/mercedes-azpilicueta-body-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes Azpilicueta: Body Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2018<br>Bilingual edition, Spanish\/English.<br>Texts: Laura Hakel, Virginie Bobin, Mariano Blatt<br>Graphic Design: Eduardo Rey<br>Translations: Kit Maude, Daniel Tunnard\/\/ Spanish Translations: Marcos Maier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">136 pages<br>Format: 20 x 24 cm<br>ISBN 978-987-1358-57-1<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The images and texts in this book provide an introduction to the performance<br>work that the artist Mercedes Azpilicueta presented in&nbsp;<em>Body Birds<\/em>, an exhibition<br>held at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires in 2018. The visual record<br>and the sketches of some of the works featuring in the exhibition are accompanied<br>by a curatorial essay by Laura Hakel, a dramaturgical essay by French writer and<br>curator Virginie Bobin recreating the artist\u2019s symbolic world of reference, and a short<br>fiction by Argentinian poet Mariano Blatt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Mercedes Azpilicueta\u2019s works have the potency of a love letter found in a wardrobe,<br>a text wished for in the middle of the night, the yearning memory of a relative\u2019s words.<br>They deal with personal emotions familiar to us all. A long-distance call, an email<br>that arrives just in time, a heart that beats like when we run for a bus that waits for us<br>to catch up. The fade-out of the&nbsp;<em>reggaeton<\/em>&nbsp;of the van pulling away from the traffic light,<br>the street trader\u2019s words and catchphrases and singsong calls. Her work investigates<br>\u2014through language, the body and what we hear\u2014all that we take from the outside<br>and all that settles in us, becoming something personal, but also something that<br>connects us. Her voice is the one that listens attentively to what has passed through<br>us in everyday life and reassures us: \u201ctrust me sister, those words have to do<br>something, even now.\u201d \u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Laura Hakel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The exhibition&nbsp;<em>Mercedes Azpilicueta: Body Birds<\/em>&nbsp;was presented at the museum<br>from 24 November 2018 until 15 April 2019.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9899,"template":"","class_list":["post-9898","libros","type-libros","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/libros\/9898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/libros"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/libros"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/libros\/9898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37125,"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/libros\/9898\/revisions\/37125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}