Linha de corte estilo guilhotina is a solo exhibition by Tetta, a Recife-born artist working between Brazil and Germany. The exhibition combines performance, installation, and archival notions, exploring themes such as identity, body, transformation, and territory. The installation Linha de corte (2014–2024) features around 20 cedar and glass frames containing hair, resulting from the performance Corte estilo guilhotina. This action, reimagined for the opening, celebrates a decade since its first execution, reaffirming its relevance as an artistic and political gesture.

In the performance Corte estilo guilhotina, Tetta proposes an intimate and radical encounter: cutting participants’ hair, symbolically transforming fragments of their identity into artistic material. These hair samples were collected during different editions of the performance — Galeria MauMau, Recife (2014); Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo (2015); and Projeto TRAVESSIAS 2015, Galpão Bela Maré, Rio de Janeiro (2015). On those occasions, the pieces were created live immediately after the cut and arranged side by side on a shelf.

In this edition, hosted in orlando, the Linha de corte installation incorporates frames, creating a "living-dead archive" that gathers pieces from all three previous editions. Meanwhile, the live performance will produce a new installation using the newly collected hair samples.

The cuts go beyond the physical gesture, becoming metaphors for rupture and renewal, engaging with individual and collective histories. The work reflects on architecture, self-image, territory, and surface while proposing a sensitive view of the malleability of what constitutes us.

About Tetta

Tetta (Recife, PE, based in Berlin) is a transdisciplinary artist with a degree in Architecture and Urbanism (UFPE-Recife, Brazil) and a master’s in Choreography and Performance (Institute for Applied Theatre Studies ATW - Gießen, Germany). Tetta’s work spans performance, video, sound, and installation across the fields of visual arts, choreography, and theater. From an emancipatory perspective, Tetta harnesses the power of experimentation to investigate the topological, topographical, and performative relationships between individual, social, and collective bodies. Through a “teta-language,” the artist seeks to reconfigure the body fragmented by coloniality.

In 2015, Tetta inaugurated the solo exhibition GRITO CORTE (under the name Marie Carangi) at the "I Program of Exhibitions 2015 at Centro Cultural São Paulo," SP, Brazil. The artist has participated in group shows such as Prêmio Situações Brasília (2014) at the National Museum of the Republic, DF; À Nordeste (2019) at SESC 24 de Maio, SP; and WELT KOMPAKT? (2017) at frei_raum MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, among others.

Tetta has also taken part as a guest in artist residencies such as Perfocraze International Artist Residency - pIAR, Kumasi, Ghana (2023); Hangar, Lisbon, Portugal (2019); and Q21, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, Austria (2017). The artist was awarded the 6th edition of the EDP Award for the Arts by the Tomie Ohtake Institute (2018).

Exhibition: Linha de corte estilo guilhotina, by Tetta

Opening: February 20, 2025, 7–10 PM

Visitation: Until March 20, 2025, Tuesdays and Thursdays (except holidays), 11 AM–6 PM, or by appointment via email: info@orlando.art.br

Address: Ed. Conde Andrea Matarazzo, Room 711, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Entrance 1: Alameda Casa Branca, 35 – Open 24h

Entrance 2: Avenida Paulista, 1499 – Mon–Fri, 8 AM–4:30 PM