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Maria La Ribot (ES)

Spanish-born and Geneva-resident, Maria Ribot is usually introduced as a dancer, choreographer, director and live artist – but even that capacious labeling feels a bit restricted. She is a radically trans-disciplinary artist, her projects starting out from movement, the body and her origins in dance, and then adopting whatever practices, systems or materials her concept prompts. Hence, her works from the 1980s to the present show her working not just with live performance, but also video, speech, writing and sign language, the construction of objects and installations, and “relational” works involving diverse communities: both fellow arts practitioners, and lay people with no previous art-making experience.

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