SAO PAULO.- LABINAC is a collaborative project initiated by Maria Thereza Alves, Jimmie Durham, and Kai Morten-Vollmer. The project focuses on designing furniture and sculptures.

"The genesis of the project lies in an understanding of life as a choreography of movements and pauses. And what most immediately characterizes these pauses is the construction of a home and, above all, what makes us feel at home. The objects that accompany us when we eat, write, think, dream perhaps of another life and another world." (Jacopo Crivelli Visconti)


Delve into the provocative world of Jimmie Durham! Explore the groundbreaking work of this influential artist through insightful essays, exhibition catalogs, and comprehensive analyses. Discover his unique blend of sculpture, performance, and social commentary.


MARIA THEREZA ALVES
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL 1961

Alves has worked and exhibited internationally since the 1980s, creating a body of work investigating the histories and circumstances of particular localities to give witness to silenced histories. Her projects are researched-based and develop out of her interactions with the physical and social environments of the places she lives, or visits for exhibitions and residencies. These projects begin in response to local needs and proceed through a process of dialogue that is often facilitated between material and environmental realities and social circumstances.

JIMMIE DURHAM
USA, 1949 – BERLIN, GERMANY, 2021

Jimmie Durham was an artist, performer, designer, poet, and writer. In 2019, he was awarded the Golden Lion for his body of work at the 58th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

Durham grew up in a family of woodcarvers and began working in avant-garde theater and writing poetry in 1963, during the civil rights movement in the United States. Since the 1990s, Durham’s work has focused mainly on the relationship between architecture, monumentality, and national narratives.

ELISA STRINNA
PADUA, ITALY, 1982

Elisa Strinna is an Italian multimedia artist based in the Netherlands who works with sculpture, film, and sound. By studying different infrastructures – from information to biotechnology – she critically investigates the interconnection between humanity, nature, and technology. Through her research, she seeks ways to question the modern approach that views the planet as a collection of materials to be exploited endlessly. In her immersive installations, she creates microcosms, organic and mysterious atmospheres of enigmatic origin, where the dominant binary logic of the rational mind fades. In these hybrid worlds, it becomes difficult to draw a clear separation between the natural and artificial, geological and human, spiritual and material.

JONE KVIE
STAVANGER, NORWAY, 1971

Jone Kvie’s practice as a sculptor is characterized by a fascination with existential questions, and by an intention to extend the notion of art towards contemplation over the world’s being, and what it means to be human in it. With an ongoing interest in the workings of the world and our place in it, Kvie explores both the means and the limitations of sculpture by addressing various phenomena in the physical world and in society, many of which we still struggle to understand.

PHILIPP MODERSOHN
BREMEN, GERMANY, 1986

In his multidisciplinary practice, Philipp Modersohn highlights the vibrancy of all terrestrial matter. In his animated films, various non-human, often inorganic actors appear, stones, shells, plastics, etc., which tell of their existence and of their view of things, not least in relation to the human influence on their respective habitats. In his sculptures, which are mainly made of sediments and other originally earthbound materials, Modersohn emphasizes the beauty of the fragile, drawing on the decisive shaping forces on our planet: pressure and heat. The works oscillate between indoor and outdoor objects and often have an architectural and design reference.


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