The group show A Deusa Linguagem [The Goddess Language] brings together works by 14 artists who are part of the study group at Ateliê Fotô, coordinated by curator Eder Chiodetto and researcher Fabiana Bruno.
In the second half of 2022, the group was invited to watch the film Goodbye to Language (2014), by French filmmaker Jean Luc Godard, in order to discuss, in their individual artistic projects, issues that relate to the French artist’s film, such as: the collapse of communication, the exhaustion of images in the contemporary world, the dismantling of rational logic nad the possibility of restoring poetics via editing and non-linear narratives.
Starting from this proposition and based on these tenets, each artist created new images or reviewed their own production and photographic series to engender instances that problematize language. The reflections let to a surprising myriad of works with a considerable multiplicity of approaches.
Photography, the predominant language of the group, was investigated to exhaustion and taken to its limits. Thus, the group assessed status and semantic possibilities in the current dystopian moment in the world, in which political dealings and communication produce dissonant noises more than harmonies and agreements.
In the works that comprise the exhibition, there is an evocation going from the beginnings of photography in the 19th century, with the use of the cyanotype, to the tools of Artificial Intelligence. The investigations carried out by the artists also experimented with juxtaposition and collage, nimated images on video, texts that reorient the meaning of the photos, as well as soundscapes. Some artists break up the two-dimensional plane and others build from the ruins of the image a site to erect a new poetic force.
In the obsessive search for new parameters of expression, the result of these many actions, aiming to scrutinize and review beyond any dogma the possibilities of the photographic gesture, expands the world of language. Hence, we infer that the image is infinite when handled by minds and hearts eager to reflect on the nature of language as sensitive exchanges.
The many provocations made by Godard with Goodbye to Language are returned here anthropophagically by 14 artists from the group of the Ateliê Fotô. After elaborating the photographic expression in many ways, these works tell us about the crisis and the collapse of communication, debating the reconstruction of language as a state of reinvention. Goodbye to Language. To God, the Language. The Goddess Language.
The group show A Deusa Linguagem [The Goddess Language] brings together works by 14 artists who are part of the study group at Ateliê Fotô, coordinated by curator Eder Chiodetto and researcher Fabiana Bruno.
In the second half of 2022, the group was invited to watch the film Goodbye to Language (2014), by French filmmaker Jean Luc Godard, in order to discuss, in their individual artistic projects, issues that relate to the French artist’s film, such as: the collapse of communication, the exhaustion of images in the contemporary world, the dismantling of rational logic nad the possibility of restoring poetics via editing and non-linear narratives.
Starting from this proposition and based on these tenets, each artist created new images or reviewed their own production and photographic series to engender instances that problematize language. The reflections let to a surprising myriad of works with a considerable multiplicity of approaches.
Photography, the predominant language of the group, was investigated to exhaustion and taken to its limits. Thus, the group assessed status and semantic possibilities in the current dystopian moment in the world, in which political dealings and communication produce dissonant noises more than harmonies and agreements.
In the works that comprise the exhibition, there is an evocation going from the beginnings of photography in the 19th century, with the use of the cyanotype, to the tools of Artificial Intelligence. The investigations carried out by the artists also experimented with juxtaposition and collage, nimated images on video, texts that reorient the meaning of the photos, as well as soundscapes. Some artists break up the two-dimensional plane and others build from the ruins of the image a site to erect a new poetic force.
In the obsessive search for new parameters of expression, the result of these many actions, aiming to scrutinize and review beyond any dogma the possibilities of the photographic gesture, expands the world of language. Hence, we infer that the image is infinite when handled by minds and hearts eager to reflect on the nature of language as sensitive exchanges.
The many provocations made by Godard with Goodbye to Language are returned here anthropophagically by 14 artists from the group of the Ateliê Fotô. After elaborating the photographic expression in many ways, these works tell us about the crisis and the collapse of communication, debating the reconstruction of language as a state of reinvention. Goodbye to Language. To God, the Language. The Goddess Language.