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6teen Stitches. Performance at donau festival. Krems, 2008 (photo: Florian Wieser)

Rewriting Love And Pain

(This is a past event and is no longer running)

EXHIBITION

Rewriting Love & Pain, a retrospective exhibition of Austro-Brazilian artist Roberta Lima’s art exploring bio-politics, affection and gender affirmation through body modification performance, videos and sculptures.

Lima uses gender stereotypes and symbols to explore and challenge our comprehension of love and pain. How do social rituals show us what love really means? How can social rituals be transformed to reveal pain as an acceptable process in everyday life?

Roberta Lima acknowledges the body modification movement and community as crucial to their art. Their work has been presented internationally at the Cairo Biennale, Kyoto Experiment and Vienna Art Week. They return to exhibit at The Coronet as a non-binary artist, reexamining their work within a new personal context. 

Artist
Roberta Lima

Curated by
Camilla Rocha Campos

 

Artwork courtesy of the artist, and Charim Galerie, Vienna.

Image credit: 6teen Stitches. Performance at donau festival. Krems, 2008 (photo: Florian Wieser)

Dates :

24 – 1 Jun

Free entry, booking required

Age Guidance:

14 +

Content Warnings :

Graphic imagery, blood, piercing skin, body modification, needles

6teen Stitches. Performance at donau festival. Krems, 2008 (photo: Florian Wieser)

Dates :

24 – 1 Jun

Free entry, booking required

Age Guidance:

14 +

Content Warnings :

Graphic imagery, blood, piercing skin, body modification, needles

Additional Information

ROBERTA LIMA

Roberta Lima uses different media such as photographs, videos, sculptures, and paintings to create installations and alternative narratives of bodies and spaces. Lima looks for intersections between nature and technology, mythology and gender nonconformity, historical references and storytelling to produce art and initiate discussions about the role of artists and viewers. Roberta Lima has participated in international events, including at the Cairo Biennale (2008), dounaufestival (2008, 2016), Wiener Festwochen (2016), Kyoto Experiment (2018),  Coronet Theatre (2019, 2020), Vienna Art Week (2022). Lima’s works are in The Verbund Art Collection, Austrian Federal Photography Collection, MUSA Museum Artothek and Ursula Blickle Video Archive. In 2007 Lima was awarded the “H13 Prize for Performance ” and in 2018 the Austrian Citizenship based on their merit, accomplishments, and contributions to the nation. Roberta Lima currently lives in Helsinki.

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