Anna Maria Maiolino is one of the most significant artists working in Brazil today. In a career spanning five decades and a diversity of disciplines and mediums, ranging from drawing, sculpture, and artist books to video and performance, she expresses through her art a bottomless concern with creative and destructive processes and, above all, the never-ending search for identity. Maiolino's multidisciplinary practice has consistently explored the viscerality of embodied experience – often obliquely through fragmentation and abstraction – and engaged the human body's processes as analogs for both the making of art and the making of modernity. As an immigrant coming of age in politically unstable Brazil, Maiolino has perfected a dialogue between opposite yet complementary categories in a practice that dissolves dichotomies of inner and outer, self and other. Hers is an art in search of a new language for the liminal realm of daily human existence.

Hauser & Wirth will present 'Anna Maria Maiolino. Between Senses', the gallery's debut exhibition devoted to the artist. On view will be a selection of drawings, works on canvas, sculptures, photographs, and videos, as well the sound installation 'Two Beats' (2012), which features the artist's poem 'Eu so Eu (I am I)' that was presented at dOCUMENTA 13.

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Anna Maria Maiolino
Untitled, from Novos Outros (New Others) series, 2013
Pigmented, molded cement and raku pieces on metal table with electrostatic paint
Piece: 10 x 47 x 44 cm / 3 7/8 x 18 1/2 x 17 3/8 in
Table: 75 x 47 x 44 cm / 29 1/2 x 18 1/2 x 17 3/8 in
Photo: Everton Ballardin
courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth