Cinthia Marcelle’s videos recast workaday tasks as poetic performances. In Leitmotiv, the labor of washing a sidewalk with a mop and soapy water becomes the unexpected occasion for a street-level whirlpool. As with most of Marcelle’s videos, Leitmotiv is shot from a bird’s-eye view, emphasizing its abstraction despite its everyday origins.

Giampaolo Bianconi, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance Art