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Dozens of performers noiselessly cluster backstage waiting to go before the audience at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery<\/a> in a performance orchestrated by Brazilian artist Laura Lima.\u00a0 All actors, or \u2018ballerinas\u2019 as the gallery terms some of them, are sculptures created by Lima\u2019s studio and include beekeeping clothes modified to suggest a space suit, a hammer and a sickle, each sporting a long \u2018Greek\u2019 dress, and a black and red cross a la early 20th<\/sup> century artist Kazimir Malevich.\u00a0 Sent out on a pulley system along one gallery wall and powered by an offstage bicycle, the inanimate figures are given life by lights, sound and careful movement of the pulley.\u00a0 Strangely absorbing, the installation and its dancing figures reward visitors who are game for interpretation. (On view in Chelsea through May 30th<\/sup>.)<\/p>\n

Laura Lima, installation view of \u2018Bale Literal,\u2019 at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, May 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dozens of performers noiselessly cluster backstage waiting to go before the audience at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in a performance orchestrated by Brazilian artist Laura Lima.\u00a0 All actors, or \u2018ballerinas\u2019 as the gallery terms some of them, are sculptures created by Lima\u2019s studio and include beekeeping clothes modified to suggest a space suit, a hammer and … <\/p>\n

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