São Paulo, June 12, 2014.
As this text is written there is an incessant noise situation everywhere. Horns, trumpets, drums and screams are added to the ever usual noises of a city used to hustle and bustle. Alongside, the sports news and its unfolding flood the communication medias. On the small remaining space, one can read about different clashes between protesters and the police force. It is possible to assume today – and the coming days – as the culmination of a long period marked by uncertainty about the near future and permeated by a widespread anxiety.
Aligned with the immediate context in which it falls to, this show is about now. Between months staged by mass events of global impact repercussion] large constructions – some not undertaken and others finished under the risk of the provisional –, big figures transactions, marches, strikes and ideological battles in a pre-election process, it deals with the instant one speculates what may or may not happen.
By bringing together works that come to realize the obscurity of our time, proposes an environment that recreates, highlights, enhances and discusses its tensions. Aware of the implications of these movements, in an age where everything is recorded and the eyes of the world turn to the great broadcasts, the invited artists make use of the video – in its different ramifications – and other strategies to explore the fragility of this transient state characterized by an always disturbed expectation.
Moving forward, it seeks to overcome the present in order to lean over the lapse that separates it from tomorrow. Positioning itself in the elusive threshold between what is yet to be and what has been, avoids being blinded by the evident or stitching the dissent, preferring the in between lines instead of the explicit. In the sense of pointing out the charged social discomfort we find ourselves in, it invents, articulates, expands, inverts, absents and dismantle the image.
Fernando Ticoulat and Germano Dushá, curators.
Installation view
Deyson Gilbert / faixa-PROUN 15+20+15 (OTO) [Opacidade Transitiva para Ocupação], 2014 / Action-intervention at the 50th anniversary edition of the Marcha da Família com Deus Pela Liberdade (Family Walk with God for Freedom) in São Paulo
Cinthia Marcelle and Tiago Mata Machado / O Século, 2011 / Video / 9’37”
Matheus Rocha Pitta / Fundo Falso #3 (soro), 2014 / Plastic, white wine, milk, wood, acrylic / Dimensions variable
Matheus Rocha Pitta / Fundo Falso #3 (soro), 2014 / Plastic, white wine, milk, wood, acrylic / Dimensions variable
Matheus Rocha Pitta / Olho de Peixe, 2009 / Video, 34’46″ (253 flash animated digital photographs), wood and monitor / 300 x 260 x 70 cm
Matheus Rocha Pitta / Olho de Peixe, 2009 (detail) / Video, 34’46″ (253 flash animated digital photographs), wood and monitor / 300 x 260 x 70 cm
Janaina Wagner / Letargia, 2014 / Video (5 channels) / 1’17”
Janaina Wagner / Letargia, 2014 / Video (5 channels) / 1’17”
Installation view
Lenora de Barros / Estudo para facadas, 2012 / Video / 1’32
Nicolás Robbio / Pêndulo, 2014 / Video / 1’22”
Nicolás Robbio / Sentou pra descansar, 2014 / Flashlight, wood, envelope and pencil on paper / Dimensions variable
Nicolás Robbio / Sentou pra descansar, 2014 / Flashlight, wood, envelope and pencil on paper / Dimensions variable
Jorge Menna Barreto e Traplev / Incômodo, 2013 / Video / 2’02″
Jorge Menna Barreto e Traplev / Incômodo, 2013 / Video / 2’02″
Jorge Menna Barreto e Traplev / Incômodo, 2013 / Movie still; poster, off-ser printing, third edition, 200 grams, 200 copies / 40 x 60 cm
Deyson Gilbert / faixa-PROUN 15+20+15 (OTO) [Opacidade Transitiva para Ocupação], 2014 / Action-intervention at the 50th anniversary edition of the Marcha da Família com Deus Pela Liberdade (Family Walk with God for Freedom) in São Paulo
Deyson Gilbert / faixa-PROUN 15+20+15 (OTO) [Opacidade Transitiva para Ocupação], 2014 / Action-intervention at the 50th anniversary edition of the Marcha da Família com Deus Pela Liberdade (Family Walk with God for Freedom) in São Paulo
Deyson Gilbert / faixa-PROUN 15+20+15 (OTO) [Opacidade Transitiva para Ocupação], 2014 / Action-intervention at the 50th anniversary edition of the Marcha da Família com Deus Pela Liberdade (Family Walk with God for Freedom) in São Paulo
Deyson Gilbert / faixa-PROUN 15+20+15 (OTO) [Opacidade Transitiva para Ocupação], 2014 / Action-intervention at the 50th anniversary edition of the Marcha da Família com Deus Pela Liberdade (Family Walk with God for Freedom) in São Paulo
Ricardo Carioba / Lapso, 2014 / Video, sound and mirrors installation in a black room / Dimensions variable
Ricardo Carioba / Lapso, 2014 / Video, sound and mirrors installation in a black room / Dimensions variable
Ricardo Carioba / Lapso, 2014 / Video, sound and mirrors installation in a black room / Dimensions variable