Alexandra Pirici: Re-collection

How can we remember a bird call, a painting, or even a monument that does not exist yet? In Alexandra Pirici’s live performative artwork Re-collection (2018–24), real and fictional references of lifeforms, artworks, songs, poetry, and sensations are remembered, combined, and recombined to be given new form and meaning by performers’ bodies. These objects, events, and memories, including ones specific to SFMOMA’s collection and the Bay Area’s history, become images in movement, actions, words, or sound.

Presented for the first time in SFMOMA’s galleries, this ongoing performative action brings together elements of dance, sculpture, spoken word, and music; it invites visitors to consider these recollections in relation to fixed modes of artwork display and traditional notions of a museum collection.

The live action will take place from noon to 4 p.m. daily and move across several galleries on Floor 4 within the Freeform: Experiencing Abstraction exhibition and the adjacent City Galleries corridor.
 
Performers: Lydia Clinton, Pangaea Colter, KJ Dahlaw, Aine Dorman, Victoria Kamala Fifield, Emily Hansel, Emma Lanier, Zihan Loo, Coral Martin, and Szu Yu Tuan.