Jorge Barrão, Luiz Zerbini and Sergio Mekler of the artists’ collective Chelpa Ferro are returning to Galeria Vermelho with the installation Spacemen/Cavemen created in early 2011 for the exhibition ECO, in Recife. As in earlier works, in Spacemen/Cavemen Chelpa Ferro manipulates discarded machines and objects no longer in use, re-signifying them, adding to and nullifying their functions. Resignified, these objects of brief existence within consumer society gain a second chance at life when confronted with new technologies constituting landscapes of sound and light. Spacemen/Cavemen combines wires, power cords, ropes, loudspeakers and lights in two modules of sound and light that communicate in random ways and which reorganized the space and the displacement of the observer within it.
Jorge Barrão, Luiz Zerbini and Sergio Mekler of the artists’ collective Chelpa Ferro are returning to Galeria Vermelho with the installation Spacemen/Cavemen created in early 2011 for the exhibition ECO, in Recife. As in earlier works, in Spacemen/Cavemen Chelpa Ferro manipulates discarded machines and objects no longer in use, re-signifying them, adding to and nullifying their functions. Resignified, these objects of brief existence within consumer society gain a second chance at life when confronted with new technologies constituting landscapes of sound and light. Spacemen/Cavemen combines wires, power cords, ropes, loudspeakers and lights in two modules of sound and light that communicate in random ways and which reorganized the space and the displacement of the observer within it.
