NATURAL IMPRESSIONS

CRISTINA LISOT
Caxias do Sul, Brazil
DUPLO EM MOVIMENTO, 2023
Artwork showcased in the form of video art.
0’20’’
Artwork in collaboration with
the visual artist Angela Pimentel
30
Cristina works across the performing
arts, visual arts, and body sciences,
intertwining knowledge and
experimenting with vocabularies
in these fields. She has a deep
familiarity with the scent of sewing,
having been born amidst over a
hundred fabric-stitching machines.
Her upbringing was shaped by her
parents, an entrepreneurial tailor and
an art teacher. Scissors, long weaving
needles, short sharp ones for piercing,
glue, paints, fabrics, ribbons, gardens,
swings, and her very own dollhouse
created the foundation from which
she draws inspiration. She engages in
knitting, sewing, unraveling, spinning,
and a bit of embroidery. She moves,
observes, investigates, and sniffs,
finding hooks for her attention in
the blooming flowers around her.
With threads, she creates loops to
release unspoken words, those that
are like foam, simultaneously hidden
and explicit. She unravels her own
entanglements, striving to clarify and
untangle her reflections on what the
human body and movement truly mean
to her. It is the place where everything
begins and ends, forming the circle,
the cycle, the cylinder. It encompasses
worlds between life and death, above
and below the ground, inside and
outside, right side and reverse. The
body, embraced by the skin and its
shadow, embodies the incredible
concreteness of atoms dancing to
the beat of complex and rhythmic
reactions, representing our very
existence. She explores movement to
discover poetry, to experience the joy
of sweating, and to engage in a gentle
romance with life. It encompasses
softness and delicacy, as well as the
requirement of physical strength and
a certain power to bend. It spans from
affection to force, from the very small to
larger than the body, always in relation.
The delicate old parchment paper,
previously tattooed with punctures,
becomes a canvas for embroidered
layers, revealing countless others.
Media and proportions highlight the
interconnectedness of the body,
memory, and movement, tracing
back to the beginning with fabrics,
ribbons, gardens, and swings. In an
effort to integrate various media that
involve the body, including textiles
and performance, and to expand
their expressive possibilities, Cristina
embarked on a collaborative journey
with Ângela Pimentel, a visual artist
who graduated as a photography
technologist from the University of
Caxias do Sul in 2018. Ângela’s
work has received recognition
through awards at the Costa Doce
Contemporary Art Salon and has been
published in Fotodemic magazine in
New York.