To the fullest extent, 2023

Ricardo Vilas Freire and Polina Shklovskaya

To the fullest extent, eight performers with different air pumps create a lump through inflating. All participants produce different sounds vocalizing the process of breathing and the labor put into the action, establishing collective non-verbal communication. The air is rhythmically delivered, expanding the balloon and the space around it, occupying all levels of the gallery, and pushing the understanding of boundaries. The accumulation of repetitive actions inevitably becomes dysfunctional. The plastic sheet transforms into a living organism that generates waves and moves by its own will, cornering the performers with the increasing pressure, making them the victims of their own labor.