Galeria Vermelho presents, from September 1st to 23rd, 2006, the solo exhibition Vivendo by artists Gisela Motta and Leandro Lima.
The only work created in 2005 that will make up the exhibition, “Dê Forma” addresses the issue of image manipulation through computer programs. To this end, the artists set up, on the ground floor of the gallery, a photography studio where pairs of people can have their images captured digitally. Later, these images will be manipulated through resources such as morph. This program makes it possible to superimpose the portrait of two people on a single image, creating a fictitious third person. From there, the artists rewind the image in time, generating a portrait of a child or teenager, a fictitious child, unreal, non-existent and impossible teenagers. Any type of couple can participate as long as they schedule a time to capture the image.
In “Prototipagem”, from 2006, Lepidoptera, an order of insects that includes butterflies, moths and, in Brazil, moths, Motta and Lima create, through a game of mirrors, infinitely reproduced images of these beings. The same strategy appears in “Placa Mãe Natureza”, where printed circuit boards, widely used in electrical devices, compose a landscape built with capacitors, simulating an immense forest divided into a natural plantation, older and chaotic, and another organized following a reforestation pattern. In the series composed of the works “Voando em círculos”, “Trabalhando em círculos” and “Andando em círculos”, miniatures of a plane, a train and a pair of trucks follow the same trajectory uninterruptedly, creating, through a forced perspective and repetitive trajectories, an ironic criticism of transport and locomotion routines in large cities.
Motta and Lima also present the video installations “Demolidora, Transportadora e Construtora Ilimitada” and “Segmento de reta”, both from 2006. In the first, which occupies the ground floor of the gallery, workers transport blocks and elements inspired by the toy “Brincando de engenheiro ”, referring to the incessant movement of ants, however, within this repetitive cycle, there is neither origin nor destination. In “Segmento de reta”, the artists present two synchronized projections. In them, two people intersperse within the same landscape and, although they look for each other, they never find each other. The images are projected onto mirrors coupled to speakers, causing a constant vibration in the image. For the facade of the gallery, the artists propose a game of inverting scales through objects that directly relate to the video installation “Demolidora, Transportadora e Construtora Ilimitada”.
Galeria Vermelho presents, from September 1st to 23rd, 2006, the solo exhibition Vivendo by artists Gisela Motta and Leandro Lima.
The only work created in 2005 that will make up the exhibition, “Dê Forma” addresses the issue of image manipulation through computer programs. To this end, the artists set up, on the ground floor of the gallery, a photography studio where pairs of people can have their images captured digitally. Later, these images will be manipulated through resources such as morph. This program makes it possible to superimpose the portrait of two people on a single image, creating a fictitious third person. From there, the artists rewind the image in time, generating a portrait of a child or teenager, a fictitious child, unreal, non-existent and impossible teenagers. Any type of couple can participate as long as they schedule a time to capture the image.
In “Prototipagem”, from 2006, Lepidoptera, an order of insects that includes butterflies, moths and, in Brazil, moths, Motta and Lima create, through a game of mirrors, infinitely reproduced images of these beings. The same strategy appears in “Placa Mãe Natureza”, where printed circuit boards, widely used in electrical devices, compose a landscape built with capacitors, simulating an immense forest divided into a natural plantation, older and chaotic, and another organized following a reforestation pattern. In the series composed of the works “Voando em círculos”, “Trabalhando em círculos” and “Andando em círculos”, miniatures of a plane, a train and a pair of trucks follow the same trajectory uninterruptedly, creating, through a forced perspective and repetitive trajectories, an ironic criticism of transport and locomotion routines in large cities.
Motta and Lima also present the video installations “Demolidora, Transportadora e Construtora Ilimitada” and “Segmento de reta”, both from 2006. In the first, which occupies the ground floor of the gallery, workers transport blocks and elements inspired by the toy “Brincando de engenheiro ”, referring to the incessant movement of ants, however, within this repetitive cycle, there is neither origin nor destination. In “Segmento de reta”, the artists present two synchronized projections. In them, two people intersperse within the same landscape and, although they look for each other, they never find each other. The images are projected onto mirrors coupled to speakers, causing a constant vibration in the image. For the facade of the gallery, the artists propose a game of inverting scales through objects that directly relate to the video installation “Demolidora, Transportadora e Construtora Ilimitada”.