The works featured in the group show Por Aqui [This Way] make use of simple and familiar instruments for locating and dislocating in order to create metaphors for human relations. All selected pieces, the prints, collages, sculptures or installations, break up with the traditional bi-dimensional form of a map and create imaginary compositions. They refer to different ways of observing one’s surroundings.
Esfoliação – Mapas Fraturados Irlanda [Exfoliation – Fractured Irish Maps, 2008] by Odires Mlászho is a good example of this procedure: using the Ireland guidebook, published by Berlitz, the artist exfoliated six pages of the book to create an imaginary and implausible map of that country. Mlászho alludes to the constant conflicts of that area with this procedure. The book Planets, Stars and Space was used in the piece Planets, Stars and Space of the Flaps series of 2006. Here, Mlászho guillotined the publication in nine vertical parts of 2,5 cm each, and later glued them together in order to create unusual landscapes of outer space.
Lia Chaia, on the other hand, made use of indication arrows system to create Setamanco. (‘Arrow-Sabot”)This piece was originally developed on the occasion of the Jornada Internacional na Cidade sem meu carro (International Journey in The City Without My Car), in Campinas (São Paulo) last September. The work is composed of 60 arrow-shaped wooden sabots. Visitors are allowed to wear some of them, and walk within the exhibition space.
Leya Mira Brander shows the new print series Um Tango em Silêncio, [A Silent Tango] of 38 etching, aquatint and engraving prints. A couple moves along following a tango while creating an organic path of dissolving. Their moves disappear in space. Marilá Dardot shows Resolvi Partir, [I Decided to Leave] from the Céus [Skies] series, and Carla Zaccagnini presents her new series Desenhos Animáveis [Animationable’ Drawings]
The works featured in the group show Por Aqui [This Way] make use of simple and familiar instruments for locating and dislocating in order to create metaphors for human relations. All selected pieces, the prints, collages, sculptures or installations, break up with the traditional bi-dimensional form of a map and create imaginary compositions. They refer to different ways of observing one’s surroundings.
Esfoliação – Mapas Fraturados Irlanda [Exfoliation – Fractured Irish Maps, 2008] by Odires Mlászho is a good example of this procedure: using the Ireland guidebook, published by Berlitz, the artist exfoliated six pages of the book to create an imaginary and implausible map of that country. Mlászho alludes to the constant conflicts of that area with this procedure. The book Planets, Stars and Space was used in the piece Planets, Stars and Space of the Flaps series of 2006. Here, Mlászho guillotined the publication in nine vertical parts of 2,5 cm each, and later glued them together in order to create unusual landscapes of outer space.
Lia Chaia, on the other hand, made use of indication arrows system to create Setamanco. (‘Arrow-Sabot”)This piece was originally developed on the occasion of the Jornada Internacional na Cidade sem meu carro (International Journey in The City Without My Car), in Campinas (São Paulo) last September. The work is composed of 60 arrow-shaped wooden sabots. Visitors are allowed to wear some of them, and walk within the exhibition space.
Leya Mira Brander shows the new print series Um Tango em Silêncio, [A Silent Tango] of 38 etching, aquatint and engraving prints. A couple moves along following a tango while creating an organic path of dissolving. Their moves disappear in space. Marilá Dardot shows Resolvi Partir, [I Decided to Leave] from the Céus [Skies] series, and Carla Zaccagnini presents her new series Desenhos Animáveis [Animationable’ Drawings]