Quebre a perna

FAU-USP · AUH0310 História da Arte II · 2023

A body that, having broken its own pedestal, uses a piece of it to strike its own leg. The word SEMPRE — always — is cut into the broken base.

The sculpture is about a work that wants to free itself from the prison of being art: a body that, having already split its own pedestal, uses a piece of it to strike its own leg.

The idea was to make a sculpture about art leaving the divine plane, the plane of perfection, and entering the real world. It became a metaphor for wanting to be something other than what you were made to be. To come into the world as art is to be art forever; breaking your own body is therefore freeing yourself from the burden of being that thing for always. It refuses to be a mere object of appreciation for life — that is, for the living.

There is also the word SEMPRE — always — on the pedestal broken in two, giving a body to the weight of something that does not end and that crushes the work itself.

The last metaphor is the phrase “break a leg”, the wish for luck given to someone about to perform: here, the search for luck for someone who will be performing forever.

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