Radically inhabiting the body leads to social reform.” |
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Mercedes's early work, building off circus, was concerned with different orientations of gravity/scale. More recently it deals with issues such as memory, and (physical & digital) space/time. Her practice underwent a series of explorations in composition dynamics and representations of the body and the space surrounding it. Initially using video as a personal documentary practice dealing with memory, she later adopted it as a means to upend traditional concepts of scale/intimacy during performance.