Without dialogue

Blurring the lines between performance, visual art, and theatre, María Teresa Hincapié was a major figure in the Colombian art scene of the 1980s and 1990s. Through everyday objects, durational actions, and her own body, her work interrogated structures of gender and class oppression. In Vitrina, Hincapié transforms a storefront window in downtown Bogotá – on a busy street in the city’s political and administrative center – into her stage. Dressed as a domestic worker, she cleans the glass, but also kisses it and writes poetry on it. The performance creates suspended moments of intimacy and estrangement between the bewildered passersby and the artist behind the glass.

• Sektion Section: Film
• Programm Programme: The Empire Will Fall