Dollhouse Gallery
July 3rd 2020 - June 20th 2025
Dollhouse Gallery
www.dollhouse.gallery
Dollhouse Gallery, 2020 (video intro)
Exhibition overview
Exhibition overview
Exhibition overview
Screenshot from Dollhouse Gallery, 2020
Exhibition overview
Exhibition overview
Screenshot from Dollhouse Gallery, 2020
Screenshot from Dollhouse Gallery, 2020
Exhibition overview
Exhibition overview
Exhibition overview
Screenshot from Dollhouse Gallery, 2020
Dollhouse Gallery, 2020 (detail)
Screenshot from Dollhouse Gallery, 2020
Screenshot from Dollhouse Gallery, 2020
Dollhouse Gallery, 2020 (video intro)
Exhibition overview
Exhibition overview
Exhibition overview
Screenshot from Dollhouse Gallery, 2020
Exhibition overview
Exhibition overview
Screenshot from Dollhouse Gallery, 2020
Screenshot from Dollhouse Gallery, 2020
Exhibition overview
Exhibition overview
Exhibition overview
Screenshot from Dollhouse Gallery, 2020
Dollhouse Gallery, 2020 (detail)
Screenshot from Dollhouse Gallery, 2020
Screenshot from Dollhouse Gallery, 2020
All images courtesy of the artist.
Dollhouse Gallery is a contemporary art gallery that presents itself as an artistic speculation. A work and its means of exhibition at the same time, the exhibition as a work. It is evident that the conditions and possibilities of art exhibitions have changed dramatically with the experiences of social isolation and it is in the wake of these reformulations that the Dollhouse Gallery is inserted. As a reflection - evidently with a certain degree of irony - of the exhibitions in virtual spaces, the work assumes some of the cliché characteristics of the art market to create this gallery.
The work consists of a virtual tour inside a dollhouse. This kind of "viewing room" takes as a model a dollhouse created to stage a scene of the play “hollow head doll’s foam”. Not only does it replicate its physical aspects, but it also assumes, in this package, the narrative that impregnated this dollhouse in its original context (the scene can be watched in the attic of the house). Within the narrative, repetition was explored as a form. Here, this repetition takes on the characteristic of a mise en abyme, where not only the representation of the little house is inside the dollhouse that returns to itself, but also in the development of a work within the other throughout Ilê Sartuzi's artistic research.
What is at stake, therefore, is less the set of works that make up this exhibition, than the exhibition itself that is considered an “object”. Just as the dollhouse device has become a possible support for other dramaturgies in the physical space, the Dollhouse Gallery is, in this sense, a virtual place par excellence, that is, it exists as a potentiality full of possibilities for other artistic occupations.
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Dollhouse Gallery
Ilê Sartuzi
Ilê Sartuzi (1995, lives and Works in São Paulo) is an artist graduated from the University of São Paulo (USP). He as a researcher, producer and assistant to the Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, following his interview project in Brazil (2016-2017). Co-creator and organizer of the arte_passagem project; where he invited Ana Matheus Abbade to collaborate with the intervention Faço pé e Mão (2018) and organized the PARADE of artist clothes in downtown São Paulo (2019). He participated in exhibitions at institutions such as SESC (Ribeirão Preto, 2019; Distrito Federal, 2018); CCSP - São Paulo Cultural Center (2018); MAC-USP Museum of Contemporary Art (2017); Ribeirão Preto Art Museum (2017; 2015); Maria Antônia University Center (2019); Galeria Vermelho (2017; 2018, 2019); the three in collaboration with the research group After the End of Art that he has been part of since 2015. He presented theatrical plays performing video-mapping projections in spaces such as Oficina Oswald de Andrade (2018, 2020); Itaú Cultural (2019); Container Theater (2019) and TUSP (2019). Working for more than a year on a specific project, Sartuzi debuted his play without actors hollow head doll’s foam at Firma (São Paulo, 2019). In 2020 he was invited by IMS - Instituto Moreira Salles to produce a commissioned work resulting in the production of a video constructed with computer generated images (CGI) that dialogues with a late text, Worstward Ho!, by Samuel Beckett. He also held a residency at Olhão (2020), developing another similar video, Night and Day, which was later awarded with Itaú Cultural's incentive.
Dollhouse Gallery is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2020 based inside a dollhouse. In the face of the virtual trends that have transformed the way of experiencing art in recent months, the gallery assumes the virtual space as a place for free experimentation, and is no longer necessarily based on the traditional conditions of physical space. That is, in contrast to the conservatism that plagues the traditional artistic milieu which, with the new possibilities, preferred “neutral” gray floors and white walls that somehow refer to its “real” spaces, the Dollhouse Gallery believes that virtuality is also a possibility of transgressing the limits of the “real” to build any kind of situation.