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INVITED ARTIST: ISABEL SAIJ (FRANCE)

http://arteonline.arq.br/newsletter/review2005/english_saij.htm

WORK: "POLITICAL TRANSPARENCY"

(http://www.iis.com.br/~regvampi/museu/netartwebart/isabelsaij.htm )

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2005 FIRST REVIEW:

1- Do you believe?

by Regina Celia Pinto

My grandmother, who was born in 1896, told me:

"I like romances, I like stories. Yes, I like. Now I do not know, the time went by…
When I was young the women were different. We could not do things,
stories… only sometimes. I had wish but I did not have perhaps competence to write a story. Neither I had the facilities of today. I belong to 96, I do not belong to 900. When I was born women did not study. Who am I? I went to school because my mother was a little bit more advanced. She was one of the few advanced people…"

My grandmother studies were only the elementary school's studies, however she read one book a week during great part of her life.

It is interesting to compare my grandmother's text of and Saij's bio, who was born 58 years after 1896.

Isabel Saij
born 1954
french
lives and works in Mervent (France) and Vienna (Austria)


1984 : dissertation in "visual art and science of art" La Sorbonne Paris 1
subject : "Egon Schiele 1890/1918"

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The first movements toward universal suffrage (or manhood suffrage) occurred in the early 19th century, and focused on removing property requirements for voting. Only in the late 19th and early 20th century, the focus of universal suffrage became the removal of restrictions against women having the right to vote.


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These few paragraphs above which I chose to start my comments on Isabel
Saij's work evidence the XX century importance for the feminine gender.

"Political Transparency", Isabel Saij's work which we are analyzing,
demonstrates political understanding and reveals that using Art and
Technology, without any doubt, it is a consequence of the feminine gender's conquests of the XX century.

"Political Transparency" and the Author's text on the work ("A black and white, a black or white system or wise of thinking, a binar one, a manichean one, in a grey zone with barred windows." ) remind me "Mille Plateaux" by Deleuze and Guattari, where they affirm that the face is a white wall with a black hole and also they indicate the relationship between body and power. It is the despotic and authoritarian power's concrete arrangement which unchains the abstract machine of "visageite", which operates a "visageification" of the whole body, of their surroundings and of their objects, turning into landscape all the worlds and ambients. The face is political. We are what the power wants!

Saij stated:

"We're the sheep, whether we like it or not. The broadcast is perpetually lying, the press lies, manipulating and manipulated, and the politicians seem to orchestrate the whole, entirely bound, as we are. What could they do, apart from making a marvellous shining show…
We're the sheep and the pantins. They are too.." (Isabel Saij)

Undo the face is not a small work. If the face is political, undo it also is a politics. We can not fight against the face and against the abstract machine of "visageite", It is necessary to fight with these elements and to invent a new use for them.

It is only in the conscience and in the subjective passion's black hole, where each one connects to the unknown spaces of the other, that we can dismount that system… We have need of thinking head's intellectual availability (like the Isabel Saij's thinking
head) which enable the abstract machine of "visageite" for a different
operation, then a year zero will start, but for that it is necessary to
break the previous codes.

"Have a good time, relax, every thing's fine. We can trust them, they do their job for our own good…they protect us…sure… Wolfowitz became administrator of the world bank." (Isabel Saij)

Will we be really in a labyrinth without exit * or does it remain some
hope?

Another French Author, Jean Duvignaud, stated:

"Artistic creation is a bet on the human species capacity to invent new
kinds of relations and to live still unknown emotions."


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And you, what do you think?

Do you also believe in the human species CREATION POWER to change our
"political landscape"?

Do you believe in UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE to change the world?

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* labyrinths., dear Isabel, could you tell us anything on "e-motions". your surprising series of sheep? http://arteonline.arq.br/sheep (Isabel Saij [III]

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2004 artist's, thinkers: Muriel Frega, Marcelo Frazao, Joeser Alvarez and Joel Weishaus


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Best regards from Rio de Janeiro,

Regina Celia Pinto

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