“Hinge”

For over three decades, Marcia Pastore has developed a practice based on the investigation of the plastic possibilities of materials. To this end, she invests in plurality, employing everything from prefabricated structures such as pulleys, clamps, and plumb lines to formless materials such as plaster, pitch, and paraffin, as well as metals molded in casting processes. The interaction between the properties of these elements results in spatial operations that simultaneously occupy and reformulate the space through the use of three-dimensional languages ​​of sculpture, installation, and architecture.

Molding stands out as the main operation in Marcia Pastore's vocabulary, serving both as a productive strategy and as a metaphor that describes the action of her work on the public, inviting them to a kind of dance with the structures that occupy the space. The body, in turn, is central to her practice, whether through the indexical dimension of the gestures that organize the material, through the pieces molded on her own skin, or through the anthropometric scale of the works. The procedural nature of her experiments is also expressed in the photographs and videos produced as records of her actions in the studio, without losing their poetic power.

Marcia Pastore has been holding solo exhibitions since 1990, when she opened an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo (MAC USP), in São Paulo, Brazil. Highlights of the artist's solo exhibitions include "Contracorpo", at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, in São Paulo, Brazil (2019); "Dobros", at the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB-RJ), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2010); "Corpo de prova", at the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology (MuBE), in São Paulo, Brazil (2017); and "Estrutura extensa", at the Ema Klabin Foundation, in São Paulo, Brazil (2021).

Participation in group exhibitions includes: "In White", at the Figueiredo Ferraz Institute, in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil (2021); "Eight Decades of Informal Abstraction 1940/2010", at the Roberto Marinho House, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2018) and at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM-SP); "Contemporary Art in the Municipal Collection", at the São Paulo Cultural Center (CCSP), in São Paulo, Brazil (2004); "The Spirit of Our Time – Dulce and João Carlos de Figueiredo Ferraz Collection", at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM-SP), in São Paulo, and at the Museum of Modern Art (MAM Rio), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2001); "5 Artists from São Paulo", at the Palace of Arts, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (1989).

His works are part of the collections of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, in São Paulo, Brazil; the Museum of Modern Art (MAM-SP), São Paulo, Brazil; the Marcos Amaro Foundation (FAMA Campo), Mairinque, Brazil; and the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo (MAC USP), São Paulo, Brazil; among others.