Frontal gallery view with a tall black vertical display installed among framed works, documenting a public project study for My Story Let Me Tell It — Act III by Analize Nicolini at SOMA – People & Culture, Curitiba, 2026.
View through a doorway into a gallery with a tall black vertical display and surrounding artworks, documenting a public project study for My Story Let Me Tell It — Act III by Analize Nicolini, Curitiba, 2026.
My Story Let Me Tell It — Act III, 2026–
Further images
My Story Let Me Tell It — Act III is a moving-image work in development conceived as a filmed public reading developed in relation to the Yogyakarta Principles (2006) and the Yogyakarta Principles Plus 10 (2017). The project shifts the body of work from reflected text and spatial installation towards voice, duration, moving image and public address.
The Yogyakarta Principles articulate the application of international human-rights law in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity; the 2017 Plus 10 document extends this framework explicitly to gender expression and sex characteristics. In Act III, this juridical language becomes artistic material: it is transferred from the written document to the artist’s voice and subjected to rhythm, duration, breath, framing, reflection, recording and editing.
The work does not use legal language merely as information to be reproduced. Its central operation is the passage from written norm to embodied speech. A text formulated in the abstract and universal language of rights is spoken by a particular body and voice, introducing presence, temporality and the physical conditions of enunciation into the document.
The planned installation brings the filmed reading into relation with a vertical display, mirrored surface and sound. Reflection places the moving image and the viewer within the same perceptual field, extending the relation between language and reflected presence established in Act I while introducing voice and duration as new material conditions.
Within My Story Let Me Tell It, Act III displaces narrative sovereignty into the field of juridical language and public address. The question is no longer only who has the authority to tell a story, or from which spatial position it can be encountered, but what happens when institutional language concerning rights, bodies and recognition is taken up and spoken by the subject to whom those categories may apply.
Act III remains in development. The final scope of the reading, script, recordings, editing, duration and installation configuration have not yet been finalised. The material publicly presented in 2026 constituted a project study and should not be understood as the completed moving-image work.
Exhibitions
Insisting on Existing: Protocols of a Public Studio, solo exhibition, SOMA – People & Culture, Curitiba, Brazil, 15 February–10 May 2026. Public presentation of a project study; critical text by Kamilla Nunes.