VIJAI PATCHINEELAM
Começo um texto dizendo: um texto de começo, meio e fim, é a coisa mais difícil a se fazer. Depois de tudo
escrito vai se raspando frases, sujeitos e parágrafos, sobra um excerto cru, telegráfico, onde o enredo é
a pausa do ponto, nada enrosca em nada, seqüenciando sem caminho coisas como, ‘pés e mãos somam quatro,
rezando e cuspindo’, ‘é o que fazemos, é o que se faz’, ‘vire a folha e escreva o seu nome’, ‘dê o sinal’.
I start writing a text with: a text with beginning, middle and end. After I have written everything I
start scrapping phrases, subjects and paragraphs. What’s left is a raw excerpt, telegraphic, where the
story line is the pause of the period mark, nothing entangles with nothing, sequencing without a path
things like, ‘feet and hands equals four, praying and spitting’, ‘it is what we do, it is what is done’.
Maíra Dietricht, December 29, 2013
Aquilo que passa não ter pertence, o que fica e não é nada
Whatever passes does not belong to you, and what remains is nothing
2014
Como documentar a imagem do protesto
How to document the image of protest
Como projetar a imagem de protesto
How to project an image of protest
ABOVE
Two traversal cuts suspends and isolates
2013
RIGHT
Fiction
2014
Found image with printed excerpt of text
about the artists work
Vijai Patchineelam (b. 1983) is presently a resident researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in
Maastricht, the Netherlands. He has a degree in Industrial Design from the School of Fine Arts at the
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a Master in Fine Arts from Konstfack University College of
Stockholm, Sweden. At the Jan Van Eyck, he is developing a video project that investigates conceptual and
choreographic approaches to decentering the actor/subject as a means of developing linguistic material
around the moving image.
Patchineelam’s most recent solo exhibitions include Wild Attacks of Cynicism at Ignacio Liprandi Gallery
in Buenos Aires, Argentina on July 19 to September 13, and Cut Corner at Seven Art Gallery in New Delhi,
India on January 28 to March 13. Also in 2013, Patchineelam’s work appears in the group show Boletim at
the Millan Gallery and the 18o Videobrasil Festival, both in São Paulo, Brazil.
EXHIBITION COORDINATOR
Suzanne Sayegh
Walid Nasrala
Technical Supervision
Walid Nasrala
Workshop Gallery is a 14.3 sq.m.
contemporary art exhibition
space located in the suburbs of
Beirut, a platform for Lebanese
and international artists.
WONDEREIGHT bldg,
facing IDM Shop Basha Gardens bldg,
Jisr El Basha
01 494 331
www.workshop-gallery.com
Design
Nisrine Sarkis
WonderEight
PRINTED BY
Graphtec