A rectangular book featuring a mustard yellow cover and a title in a white box on the centre right, reading "The Family In Disorder - Cinthia Marcelle"
The inside of the book. On the left page is a title at the top, and then the remaining page is filled with horizontal lines stretching to the bottom. The right page features a photo of an artwork, containing many objects including tubes, rolls of fabric and paper, and stacks of notebooks. The objects are arranged standing up in a straight line that stretches away to the opposite wall.
The inside of the book. Both pages are taken up by a double page spread of a photo of a close-up of an artwork. The piece features a tightly wound coil of twisted white fabric that is speckled with dirt.
The inside of the book. The left page features two photographs. The first shows a room with red brick walls and a concrete floor. The second shows a close-up of the walls, where you can see that instead of mortar between the bricks there are sticks of chalk. On the right page the first photo shows a dimly lit blackboard with chalk dust piled up beneath it. The second photo shows a close up of the partially-erased writing on the board.
The inside of the book. Both pages feature a double-page spread of a photograph of an artwork. The piece contains many elements such as stacked bricks, rolls of paper, rolls of vinyl, and stacked papers, all arranged in a straight line.
The inside of the book. Both pages feature a double-page spread of a photo of an artwork. The piece contains many elements such as barrels of dirt, stacked bags of gravel, rolls of tape, and a coil of rope, all arranged in a straight line.
The inside of the book. Both pages feature a double-page spread of a photo of an artwork. The piece spans the entire gallery, and is made of piles of debris including bricks, straw, and wood, with some suspended from the ceiling. The room has black and white cloth looped from the rafters.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, A rectangular book featuring a mustard yellow cover and a title in a white box on the centre right, reading "The Family In Disorder - Cinthia Marcelle"
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, The inside of the book. On the left page is a title at the top, and then the remaining page is filled with horizontal lines stretching to the bottom. The right page features a photo of an artwork, containing many objects including tubes, rolls of fabric and paper, and stacks of notebooks. The objects are arranged standing up in a straight line that stretches away to the opposite wall.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, The inside of the book. Both pages are taken up by a double page spread of a photo of a close-up of an artwork. The piece features a tightly wound coil of twisted white fabric that is speckled with dirt.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, The inside of the book. The left page features two photographs. The first shows a room with red brick walls and a concrete floor. The second shows a close-up of the walls, where you can see that instead of mortar between the bricks there are sticks of chalk. On the right page the first photo shows a dimly lit blackboard with chalk dust piled up beneath it. The second photo shows a close up of the partially-erased writing on the board.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, The inside of the book. Both pages feature a double-page spread of a photograph of an artwork. The piece contains many elements such as stacked bricks, rolls of paper, rolls of vinyl, and stacked papers, all arranged in a straight line.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, The inside of the book. Both pages feature a double-page spread of a photo of an artwork. The piece contains many elements such as barrels of dirt, stacked bags of gravel, rolls of tape, and a coil of rope, all arranged in a straight line.
  • Load image into Gallery viewer, The inside of the book. Both pages feature a double-page spread of a photo of an artwork. The piece spans the entire gallery, and is made of piles of debris including bricks, straw, and wood, with some suspended from the ceiling. The room has black and white cloth looped from the rafters.

Cinthia Marcelle: The Family in Disorder

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‘The Family in Disorder’ catalogue documents the first major UK solo exhibition by Cinthia Marcelle (b. 1974, Belo Horizonte), one of Brazil’s most significant contemporary artists, at Modern Art Oxford.


The Family in Disorder (2018) was a new installation composed of two site-responsive and strikingly different structures across separate galleries, which together produced a mirror image of chaos and order. The work was created using a radical and unconventional process, employed by Marcelle for the first time within this exhibition. Destabilising the expectation of creative authorship in favour of collective decision-making, the result was a radical and totally unexpected intervention.


The book includes 3 newly commissioned art historical essays by Michael Asbury, Stephanie Straine and Isobel Whitelegg. These essays contextualise the work and Marcelle’s wider practice in relation to its political backdrop of social inequality and collective protest movements.


Additionally, this book includes installation photography of the second realisation of ‘The Family in Disorder / A Família em Desordem’ at the Casa do Bandeirante, Museu da Cidade de São Paulo, Brazil (2 September 2018 – 17 February 2019).

 

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