Cinthia marcelle biography of albert

Mid-career Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle (born Belo Horizonte, 1974) first came to my attention for photographs she’d made together with the South African artist Jean Meeran, in which Marcelle disappeared into the landscape, dressed in a cape with matching colours so that self and city elided (Capa Morada, 2003).

Over the next decade her short films recorded actions that intervened in urban circuits—rather like Cildo Meireles, who subverted the capitalist circuit of Coca Cola—by altering repetition, scale and presentation (typically filming from a remote viewpoint to emphasize the resulting image rather than pulling the viewer into the thick of the action).

In Confrontation, 2005, not one, but a whole line of fire eaters entertains at traffic lights, enough to block the traffic when the lights turn green; a crowd is choreographed in grey (Grey Demonstration, 2006); vehicle owners have to push their cars home