Cibelle Cavalli Bastos’ practice is a continuous reflection on the reuse of materials and data that channel psycho-cognitive perception through examination and transformation from positions of the in-between. It operates against societal algorithms seeking non-compliant patterns of behavior and material, abstracting data to transform and assemble new frontiers, visuals, images, and ideas of the appearance and the polymorphism of selfhood and collectivity. In creating feedback loops and short circuits to redirect the algorithm, the outcome is an amalgamation and consideration of the many forms and textures we can inhabit, and the work to move between them. Performances, painting, sculpture, AI, and mixed reality weave and collage together fragments of whole notions of identity, questions of artistic labor, and challenges to formalism. Extracting oneself from automated algorithmic decision making, they work to create resistance and refusal to the identities constructed by algorithms and social conditioning. Cavalli Bastos has performed and presented work in Martin Gropius Bau (Berlin, Germany), ICA (London, UK), MASP (São Paulo, Brazil) Carnegie Hall (New York, United States), LCCA (Riga, Latvia), CAC Wifredo Lam (Havana, Cuba), Steirischer Herbst (Graz, Austria), MdbK Leipzig (Germany), Transmediale/Haus der Kulture der Welt (Berlin, Germany), KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin, Germany), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland) and NRW-Forum Dusseldorf (Germany), among other ones.
