Autoreduction (2021)

The manner of autoreduction that Dora Budor has applied to the processuality of her “solo” exhibition in the project space Progetto in Lecce is twofold. In an attempt to enter a place, to understand it, to absorb it, and to rewrite its history, Budor abandons the idea of a solo show and reflects on a different curatorial modality to build an exhibition approach far from self-celebration, proceeding in fact by reduction: she reduces the presence of herself, of her own works, opening up a dialogue with different artists and practices. The result responds both to her vision of the place — experienced by Budor during a long residency period of about seven weeks — as well as the individual artistic identities that have experienced the place less.

Reducing her physical presence, however, does not diminish Budor’s authorship, which collectively enacts a transversal and visceral occupation of the building. This form of authorship — while relinquishing the focus on her own research — responds to the other side of the process, the one that literally fits the definition of self-reduction as a “collective gesture of protest against the measure of cost.” (copy via Eleonora #Milani)
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