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Everyday Affects and World-Makings through Fragments: The Shimmers of Cracks and Clay
Mares, Manuela C.
Mares, Manuela C.
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2025
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This project lives in the in-between – between sculpture and anthropology, thinking and making, observation and intuition. Through fragments of everyday life – cracks in the street, pieces of clay, pauses and textures – Everyday Affects and World-Makings through Fragments: The Shimmers of Cracks and Clay asks how we can notice differently. What stories do the materials and objects around us carry? How do small, often overlooked details move us, shape us, and offer ways of being in relation? Rather than controlling or explaining, this project leans into curiosity, care, and the felt intensity of being in the world. Drawing from Kathleen Stewart's Ordinary Affects, Brian Massumi's writings on affect and the virtual, and Gilles Deleuze's thoughts on forces, this project explores the emotional charge of the mundane and the generative potential in the incomplete. As a Brazilian/U.S. American artist-anthropologist, I work through ethnographic writing, oral histories, installation, sculpture, and assemblages to trace moments of shimmer, tension, and possibility. These writings informed my practice in sculpture, and the final installation, "Tender Traces," holds these fragments as living pieces.
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