Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino - From Language

“From Language” is a lecture by artist Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino that delves into their artistic practice with particular attention to the linguistic and propositional structures that underpin their works. With their practice, Celestino approaches Language as a medium of operational force that structures contracts, performances, institutions, and forms of refusal. The lecture examines how Language operates across juridical, emotional, and infrastructural registers through close reading selection. Informed by traditions of conceptualism, institutional post-colonial critique, and a commitment to familial and material contingency, From Language offers a study of how artworks act as linguistic compositions — and how Language itself can be a site of both containment and liberation.

Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino addresses through score, sculpture, text, photography, sound, and video, the remaining structures of the transatlantic colonial project, focusing on institutional critique, language, and objecthood. Their work has been shown in Germany and internationally, including exhibitions at Galerie Molitor (Germany), Kunsthal Nord (Denmark), Museu Nacional da República (Brazil), Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Germany), Curitiba Biennial (Brazil), and Oscar Niemeyer Museum (Brazil).  The lecture performance is part of the upcoming solo exhibition at Kunstraum in June 2025.

A LIAS event in cooperation with Kunstraum

The performance-lecture takes place in room C 40.704.