Grazer Kunstverein

The Actress addresses questions of language, enunciation, and subjectivities. In their collaborative work, artists Becket MWN and Aimée Zito Lema explore the relations between speech, memory, and movement by working with actresses through a process of documented rehearsals. In these, an actress works with a theater director and rehearses a script in which language is connected to bodily movement, allowing the actress to internalize the words. The same situation is executed twice, with actresses of different ages who speak different languages, in order to explore the shifts that occur through this. The process is documented with cameras from two different perspectives: one from the outside watching the learning process, and the other representing the internal perspective of the actress. This documentation is implemented as a multi-channel video installation in the exhibition space.