TITLE OF THE PROJECT
Adriana Varejão – for a cannibal rhetoric. Itinerary: Salvador
WHERE
Bahia Museum of Modern Art (MAM BA)
ADDRESS
Avenida do Contorno, s/n – Comercio, Salvador – BA, 40060-075, Brasil
VISITATION
04/16/2019 – 06/16/2019
ARTIST
Adriana Varejão
CURATOR
Luisa Duarte
ASSISTANT CURATOR
Pollyana Quintella
Sponsorship
Galeria Almeida e Dale
PRODUCTION
Automatica
Luiza Mello
Mariana Shincariol de Mello
Marisa S. Mello
Artist’s atelie production
Cecilia Fortes
Local production
Luisa Hardman
EXPOGRAPHY PROJECT
Álvaro Razuk
Daniel Winnik
Ligia Zilbersztejn
Victor Delaqua
EXECUCTION OF THE EXPOGRAPHY PROJECT
RCD Produção de Arte
Ricardo Cavalcanti
Cenotechnician leader
Adriano Passos
Cenotechnician
Fábio Santos
Clasio Vieira
Bruno Matos
George Santana
Romildo Alves
Painter
Ademir Ferreira
CONSERVATION
Denise Guiglemeti
Helô Biancalana
Rosangela Reis Costa
Rita Torquete Tilhaque
LIGHT DESIGN
Belight
Samuel Betts
MULTIMEDIA
Maxi Audio
GRAPHIC PROJECT
Bloco Gráfico
Support for educational actions
Colchete Projetos Culturais
Auana Diniz
MONITORS
Andréia de Jesus
Consuelo Moraes
Thiago Callefi
Felipe Brito
Fernanda Alcino
Milene Moura
Rafaela Pinto
Press relations
Marca Texto
Paula Berbert
PROOFREADING
Duda Costa
English translation
John Norman
The artist is represented by the galleries
Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel
Gagosian
Victoria Miro
Thank you
Ayrson Heráclito
Coleção Fadel
Daniela Crespi de Camaret
Fundação Marcos Amaro
Galeria Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel
Galeria Paulo Darzé
Guilherme Moreira Teixeira
Maguy e Jean-Marc Etlin
Jones Bergamin
Jorge Guinle
Lilia e Luiz Schwarcz
Mara e Márcio Fainziliber
Marcia Fortes
Maria Tereza de Lara Campos
Marisa Monte
Marta Fadel
Paulo Darzé
Pedro Buarque de Hollanda
Rosa e Alfredo Setubal
Thais Darzé
The exhibition Adriana Varejão – for a cannibal rhetoric, curated by Luisa Duarte, brings together twenty works from different phases of the artist’s career, the common thread being the subversion effected by her relation to the far-off tradition of the baroque. We are aware that rhetoric is a recurrent strategy in the style of the 17th century and a procedure that aims to persuade. This method produced sumptuous discourse and works of art to promote the Christian narrative and the European colonial project. By contrast, Varejão’s cannibal rhetoric, presents itself as a counter-program, a counter-catechism, a counter-conquest. It breaks with modern Western patterns of thought and action in favor of local know-how—the legacy of anthropophagy.
It is no accident that we begin the itinerary of this exhibition at MAM Salvador. The capital of Bahia is home to much that inspires the work of Adriana Varejão. If one were looking for a place to develop a critique of colonization in Brazil and the possibility of coming up with a program to counter our history, that place would be Salvador. We thus have the rare opportunity to bring together work whose principal themes are counter-conquest and de-Westernization and the Brazilian city in which such a political/poetic program is most likely to flourish.
Title of the project
B-Side: the vinyl disc in contemporary Brazilian
Where
Sesc Belenzinho
Address
Rua Padre Adelino, 1000 – Belenzinho, São Paulo – SP, 03303-000
Visitation
04/25/2019 – 06/30/2019
CURATOR
Chico Dub
PRODUCTION
Automatica
Luiza Mello
Mariana Shincariol de Mello
Marisa S. Mello
Geane Lino
Paulino Costa Neto
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Ayla Gomes
Production intern
Ana Pimenta
Local production
Júlia Brandão
EXPOGRAPHY PROJECT
Chalabi Arquitetos
Eduardo Chalabi
Paula Zemel
DESIGN
Dínamo Design
Alexsandro Souza
LIGHT DESIGN
Fernanda Carvalho
LIGHT DESIGN ASSISTANT
Luana Alves
INSTALLATION TEAM
SuperArte Produtora
PROOFREADING
Duda Costa
EDUCATION ACTIONS COORDINATOR
Auana Diniz
The exhibition B-side: the vinyl disc in Brazilian contemporary art, curated by Chico Dub, presents a variety of applications, arrangements and experimentations, including sound recordings, that use the vinyl disc as material or source of inspiration. The program also includes a series of performances by artist-creators who produce this kind of art.
The group exhibition B-side: the vinyl disc in Brazilian contemporary art covers a wide range of Brazilian art that takes the vinyl disc and record player as the point of departure for research and experimentation. Filling SESC Belenzinho’s entire storage area, exhibition space and atrium, the show presents the visitor with a wide variety of Brazilian artworks–interactive sound installations, paintings, sculptures, conceptual discs, videos, photographs, sound manipulations and instrument-objects – which, in various ways, creatively reconfigure the original forms and functions of devices associated with vinyl. B-side brings together works that explore the disc as object and concept, covering not only (re)production equipment but also debates regarding current technological developments.
Title of the project
Instituto República Public Sector Artist in Residence 2018-2019
VENUE
Municipal Department of Education (Rio de Janeiro)
State Department of Public Security –Under-Secretary for Education, Personal Development and Prevention (Rio de Janeiro)
SEASON
January 2018 – July 2019
ARTISTS
CADU
Tatiana Altberg
REALIZATION
Instituto República
Automatica
RASP-IR is a residence program that envisages immersing two artists for a year in public institutions in Brazil to create processes and/or objects in collaboration with staff.
RASP-IR is compatible with the Instituto República’s aim of investing through art in the personal development and training of government employees.
The specific objectives are: to identify and promote ways in which the arts can collaborate with the public sector to draw attention to their value and importance and change the way society sees them; to establish dialogue between artists, projects and people in the public sector by way of an open process; to set up social engagement projects; to develop projects that form ties with groups of public sector workers that have an impact on their work dynamics and everyday lives.
The proposals should be participatory, involving projects and employees from public institution partners.
In its first edition [2018-2019], RASP-IR invited two artists to work in public institutions partnering with the Instituto República in Rio de Janeiro. CADU worked with the Municipal Department of Education and Tatiana Altberg with the State Department of Public Security – Under-Secretary for Education, Personal Development and Prevention.
TITLE OF THE PROJECT
Festival Mulheres do Mundo
WHERE
Praça Mauá
ADDRESS
Praça Mauá, s/n – Centro, Rio de Janeiro
VISITATION
11/16/2018 – 11/18/2018
DIRECTORS
Jude Kelly
Eliana Sousa Silva
PRODUCTION
Automatica
Leve Produções
COMUNICATION
- Daniele Moura
Filipe Mendonça - Douglas Lopes
- Jessica Pires
- Eliane Salles
- Hélio Euclides
- Maria Morganti
WOMEN IN THE ARTS & CULTURE
- Geisa Lino
- Mariana Beltrão
WOMEN IN DIALOGUES
- Renata Peppl
- Marisa S. Mello
- Mariana Schincariol de Mello
- Luiza Mello
- Maíra Gabriel
- Ayla Gomes
- Gabrielle Moreira
- Ana Pimenta
WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS
- Shirley Vilela
- Adriana Barbosa
WOMEN IN ACTIVISM
- Luisa Hardman
- Inês Di Mari
WEBSITE
Pixfolio
PARTNERS
- Action Aid
- Ashoka
- British Council
- Canal Futura
- Consulado da França
- Consulado dos Estados Unidos da América
- DPZ&T
- Fábula
- Feira Preta
- Fundação Ford
- Fundação Itaú Social
- Fundação Roberto Marinho
- Fundo Elas
- Instituto C&A
- Instituto Promundo
- Instituto Unibanco
- Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR)
- Museu do Amanhã
- Observatório de Favelas
- Olabi
- ONU Mulheres
- People’s Palace Projects
- Píer Mauá
- Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de janeiro
- Plano Feminino
- Sebrae
- Secretaria Municipal de Cultura
- SESC Nacional
- SESC RJ
- TV Globo
- Womanity
Redes da Maré, the Southbank Centre and the British Council came together to organize the Women of the World Festival – Rio de Janeiro, the first edition of the Women of the World Festival (WOW) in Latin America, which took place between November 16 and 18 at the Museum of Tomorrow, the Museum of Art of Rio and Armazém 01 – Píer Mauá, at Praça Mauá.
Automatica was responsible for producing the event Women in Dialogue, which was intended to stimulate, document and disseminate reflections on the stories of women from different fields of knowledge, celebrating their achievements and highlighting the challenges that still form part of their lives. The program was devised through collective curatorship which included the staging of six Reflection Groups in different regions of Rio de Janeiro, between November 2017 and September 2018. This content was systematized and resulted in eighty activities, divided into the following formats: Shared Territories, Conversation Circles, Forums of Experience, Exchanges of Experience, WOW Bites: sharing stories, Workshops and Mentorships: lives in connection – the latter with Luiza Mello as one of the guest participants.
The global movement launched by the British director and producer Jude Kelly, in 2010 has already taken place in 23 countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, as well as several cities in England. WOW is the largest, most comprehensive and most important festival dedicated to presenting work produced by women, debating and promoting the search for gender equality.
TITLE OF THE PROJECT
Mufa Caos
WHERE
Arte Clube Jacaranda
ADDRESS
Ladeira da Glória, 26 – Glória, Rio de Janeiro – RJ
VISITATION
28/09/2018 – 25/11/2018
Artist
Barrão
Curatorship
Luiza Mello
Production
Jacaranda
Mufa Caos is a collection of works produced by the artist, Barrão, over the last three years. Comprising 34 works, including multi-coloured ceramic sculptures and monochromatic resin pieces, this series of watercolours and sculptural objects has been brought together for the first time to illustrate the complexity and subtlety of his artistic practice, which began in the 1980s. “Mufa Caos is chaotic thought and organization, technique and improvisation; it is irony and seriousness, heart and mind; it is you and I in the fantastical universe of Barrão”, explains the curator of the exhibition, Luiza Mello.
There is no hierarchical or chronological logic to the construction of the works on display or in relation to the elements that compose it: a ceramic potato acquired from a street vendor is given no less prominence than a piece bought in an antiques shop.
This approach, adopted by the artist in his studio, dissolves hierarchy in a time of simultaneousness. While he waits for the ceramic pieces to dry, and which take longer to make, for example, the artist works on watercolours. During the preparation of a mould for a resin piece, he explores the materials which might form a new sculpture. These are the continuous experimental exercises that follow a method, both rigorous and subversive, which are on display in Mufa Caos.
TITLE OF THE PROJECT
Recortes da Arte Contemporânea Brasileira
WHERE
Tempelhof Airport
ADDRESS
Tempelhofer Damm 45
10963 Berlin
Germany
VISITATION
09/27/2018 – 09/30/2018
Artists
Adriana Varejão
Arjan Martins
Beatriz Milhazes
Daniel Lannes
Eduardo Sued
Luiz Zerbini
Maxwell Alexandre
Miguel Rio Branco
Otavio Shipper
Curators
Paulo Herkenhoff e Luiza Mello
The exhibition Cuttings from Contemporary Brazilian Art brings together visual artists from different generations, grouped around the themes of Afro-Rio, Colour and History/Knowledge.
Afro-Rio is characterized by works that address aspects of European colonization and African inheritance in Carioca culture, produced by the artists Arjan Martins, Maxwell Alexandre and Adriana Varejão.
Historically, in Brazil, it has always been possible to observe a vast diversity of chromatic projects which operate in the political and sensitive fields. Colour appears as a founding element in the works of the four artists selected: Beatriz Milhazes, Eduardo Sued, Luiz Zerbini and Miguel Rio Branco.
In History/Knowledge, the artists Otavio Schipper and Daniel Lannes place art, knowledge and history in dialogue with each other, using different approaches.
The three centres of the show were organized with the intention of stimulating readings and reflections on aspects of Brazilian art together with the audience of Art Berlin.
The curators are Paulo Herkenhoff and Luiza Mello.
TITLE OF THE PROJEC
Mostra Bug
WHERE
Oi Futuro do Flamengo
VISITATION
14/08/2018 – 09/09/2018
Curatorship
André Paz, Julia Salles e Arnau Gifreu
Production
[Automatica]
Luiza Mello
Mariana Schincariol de Mello
Production Assistant
Ana Pimenta
GRAPHIC PROJECT
[Dínamo]
Alexsandro Souza
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
[Gávea arquitetura]
Felipe Rio Branco
Alziro Carvalho Neto
INSTALLATION TEAM
[H.O Silva Produções]
Humberto Junior
LIGHT DESIGN
[Belight]
Samuel Betts
Equipments
On Projeções
VR Equipments
Thunder VR
Videos
Cria Projetos e Narrativas
PHOTOGRAPHY
Felipe Varanda
PRESS RELATIONS
Meise Halabi
Assistente de comunição COMMUNICATION ASSISTANT
Leonardo Coelho
SOCIAL MEDIA
Leonardo Coelho, Raquel Boechat e Bianca Nonato
BugLab: International Conference
Coordination
André Paz e Kátia Augusta Maciel
Organizing Committee
Inês Maciel
Julia Salles
Luciano Saramago
Ronaldo Ranzemberger
Production Committee
Arthur Moraes
Bianca Nonato
Bruna Lacerda
Christophe Nonato
Marina Cruz
Willian Nogueira
The central focus of Mostra Bug was an immersion in the universe of new digital narratives, still little known and explored in Brazil. Under the curatorship of André Paz, Julia Salles and Arnau Grifeu, researchers and organizers of interactive projects, the show combined an exhibition with an international conference and workshops.
During the exhibition, around 50 interactive immersive narratives were presented in the form of web-documentaries, projections, interactive documentaries, 360 videos, virtual reality animations, augmented reality, sound maps and transmedia projections [projection, interaction station + cell phone].
The curators sought to offer a panorama of the principal international creative centres and the production of the Brazilian scene, with a focus on non-fiction, and adopting an anthropological approach. The works included an inventory of sounds from the historic cities of the state of Minas Gerais – a multi-platform project created by the documentary makers, Marina Thomé and Márcia Mansur.
Mostra Bug emerged from networking, research and support for new projects provided, over three years, by the laboratory Bug404 (bug404.net), in partnership with Automatica and with funding from Oi Futuro.
TITLE OF THE PROJECT
Ciclo de exposições artísticas em Belo Jardim
WHERE
Espaço Oco e Sesc Belo Jardim
VISITATION
04/19/2018 – 06/30/2018
Artist
Carlos Mélo
Curatorship
Kiki Mazzucchelli
Cristiana Tejo
COORDINATOR
Luiza Mello
LOCAL PRODUCTION
Adauto Bacelar
ART EDUCATION TEAM
Bárbara Amorim
Josenilson da Silva Sanrtos
Vanessa Melo
EDUCATION COORDINATOR
Carlos Mélo
CONSULTING
Erlene Melo
Tarcísio de Almeida
LOCAL ARTIST ASSISTANT / COLAB
Elaine Lima
GRAPHIC PROJECT
Alex Souza | Dinamo Design
COMMUNICATION COORDINATOR / CURATORSHIP ASSISTANT
Rita Vênus
PHOTOGRAPHY
Geyson Magno
VIDEO
Heleno Florentino
Speakers/Performances
Adones Valença
Clovis Teodorico
Kleber de Oliveira
Lorane Barreto
Marcus Lontra
Suzy Okamoto
PRESS RELATIONS
Mariana Oliveira
INSTALLATION/LIGHT DESIGN
Adones Valença
Management
Leticia Libanio
Mariana Schincariol de Mello
Marisa S. Mello
Website
Bruno Gosling | New Gosling
Project and production
Automatica
Team BARRO OCO
Direction and argument
Carlos Mélo
Script
Sérgio Raposo
Production Coordination
Luiza Mello
Edition
João Paulo Reys
Director of Photography
Camilo Soares
1º Camera Assistant
Rafael Cabral
Direct sound
Guma Farias
Head of Machinery
Alex Sandro
Machinery Assistant
Dyego de Souza
Drone
Pedro Coelho
Production Assistant/Director Assistant
Renata Gamelo
Local production assistants
Adones Valença
Bárbara Amorim
Vanessa Melo
Still
Geyson Magno
Still Assistant
Vanessa Melo
Driver
Chiquinho
Additional footage
1º Camera Assistant
Raphael Malta
2º Camera Assistant
Pedro Melo
Direct sound
Rafael Travassos
Driver
Márcio Tarquínio
Soundtrack
Eduardo Albuquerque
Gledson Lamartine
Heligeison Feitosa
Leo Barbalho
Colorist
Paulo M. de Andrade
Mixing
Vinícius Leal e Jesse Marmo | Estúdio Audiorama Filmes
Special cast
Antonio
Bira
Cícera
Coquinho
Dinda
Elaine
Sebastião
With Quilombola do Barro Branco community
Adriana Maria Aleixo
Andréia Alves da Silva
Andreza Alves da Silva
Antonio José da Silva
Cícera Maria da Silva
Deivid Cordeiro da Silva
Edimilson João Aleixo
Elaine Lima do Nascimento
Erivaldo Rodrigues da Silva
Flávio Leandro de Morais Melo
Geilson de Lima
Genilson Aleixo de Lima
Jaciane Cordeiro da Silva
Jadicle Lima dos Santos
Jedielson Aleixo de Lima
José Adriano Silva de Lima
José Assis dos Santos
José Carlos Pedrosa da Silva
José Ubiraci Bernardo Gomes
Leonardo Edilson dos Santos
Maria Aparecida Siqueira
Maria Sabrina da Silva de Lima
Maria Sonia da Conceição
Maria Vitória Aleixo da Silva
Matheus Silva dos Santos
Rivanildo da Silva
Rosangela da Silva Santos
Sebastião Fernandes da Silva
Taciana da Silva Santos
Tacilene da Silva Santos
Agradecimentos
Adauto Bacelar
Cristiana Tejo
David Henrique
Erlene Melo
Flavia Melo
Geyson Magno
Kiki Mazzuccelli
Leo Barbalho
Lorane Barreto
Luiza Mello
Marcus Lontra
Mariana Moura
Renata Gamelo
Serge Huot
Sergio Raposo
Sonia Costa
Suzy Okamoto
Tarcisio Almeida
The Belo Jardim Residence is an annual project organized by the Conceição Moura Institute, under the curatorship of Cristiana Tejo and Kiki Mazzucchelli, and produced by Automática. The Residency invites one artist each year to submit proposals which engage with the cultural, economic, political and social dynamics of the agreste semi-arid region of Pernambuco. In 2018, the Belo Jardim project resumed with the participation of the artist, Carlos Mélo (Riacho das Almas, PE, 1969).
The project developed by Carlos Mélo focused on the quilombola fugitive slave community of Barro Branco, and its struggle for official recognition of ownership of the territory where it has been established for years, on the outskirts of Belo Jardim. The artist’s immersion in the locale shaped the production of the medium-length film Barro Oco, produced from a sensitive perspective of the community as a generator of processes for recovering subjectivity.
In addition to the audiovisual work, the artist inaugurated the Espaço Oco, inside the Fábrica Mariola factory – a cultural space associated with the Conceição Moura Institute. During the period of the residency, the Espaço Oco functioned as a centre for promoting discussions and contact with the people of the city, stimulated by events and performances by the artist and guests.
With the aim of contextualizing the work of Carlos Mélo, an exhibition was also held at Sesc Belo Jardim. The works selected were produced over the last fifteen years, and encompassed images and themes that recur throughout the artist’s career.
Title of the project
A Longa Noite
WHERE
Sesc Pompeia
ADRESS
R. Clélia, 93 – Água Branca, São Paulo – SP
VISITATION
04/07/2018 – 07/07/2018
Artist
Lucia Koch
Production
Luiza Mello (Automatica)
Architectural Design
Alecsander Gonçalves
Graphic Project
Julio Dui (Estúdio Mono)
Engineering, development and assembly of the vinyl filter cover
Lee de Castro e equipe (LeeOffice)
Woodwork
Leonardo Padilha (12 Polegadas)
Light Design
André Boll (Santa Luz)
The installation “A Longa Noite” – “The Long Night”, by the artist Lucia Koch, was staged at the Sesc Pompeia between April 7th and July 8th 2018. Conceived specifically to occupy the hall of the theatre, the intervention responds to the architecture of the building and proposes a temporary transformation of the space. A copper-coloured filter covers the enormous glass ceiling of the space, saturating it with a constant violet light that affects our experience of time and space.
According to Lucia Koch: “night is the place of anxiety and anticipation. We are only able to endure the night because we anticipate the arrival of the day; similarly, we spend the day awaiting nightfall. If the colour of the light does not change, we remain stuck in a state of suspense.”
The artist also introduces hundreds of wooden poles into the space, similar to the structural elements used in the architecture of Lina Bo Bardi. Arranged in apparent disorder, as if awaiting definitive disposal, the poles are painted red, the colour that most stands out against the filter. For its inauguration, she invited the audience to wear red clothes.
TITLE OF THE PROJECT
Entre Construção e Apropriação — Antonio Dias, Geraldo de Barros e Rubens Gerchman in the 1960s
WHERE
Sesc Pinheiros
ADRESS
R. Paes Leme, 195 — Pinheiros, São Paulo – SP
VISITATION
04/06/2018 – 06/03/2018
CURATOR
João Bandeira
ASSISTANT CURATOR
Ana Roman
PRODUCTION
Automatica
Luiza Mello
Mariana Schincariol de Mello
PRODUCTION INTERN
Ana Pimenta
EXPOGRAPHY PROJECT
Ricardo Amado e Beatriz Matuck
LIGHT DESIGN
André Boll
GRAPHIC PROJECT AND VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN
Celso Longo + Daniel Trench
Luisa Prata [assistente]
RESEARCH
Lara Casares Rivetti
PROOFREADING
Duda Costa e Marca-Texto Editorial
EDUCATION PROGRAM
Dialogum Projetos Culturais Carlos Negrini
INSTALLATION TEAM
Superarte Produtora
Alexandre Cruz
André Cruz
Eurides Corcini
Lucas Corcini
PRESS RELATIONS
Pool de Comunicação
TRANSPORT
Vanguardian Transportes Especializados
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Adolfo A. Leirner, Alfredo Setubal, Antonio Dias, Clara Gerchman, Elaine Ramos, Evandro Teixeira, Fabiana de Barros, Fabio Cimino, Fulvia Leirner, Gustavo Rebello, Heitor Martins e Fernanda Feitosa, João Avelar, João Sattamini, Lenora de Barros, Licia Viola, Luciana Brito, Orandi Momesso, Luis Antonio de Almeida Braga, Luiz Buarque de Holanda, Marcio Gobbi, Marco Antonio Amaral Rezende, Marta Fadel, Paola Chieregato, Patricia Lee, Patrícia e Waltercio Caldas, Paula Marinho, Paulo Kuczynski, Rara Dias e Verônica Gerchman.
“Entre Construção e Apropriação — Antonio Dias, Geraldo de Barros and Rubens Gerchman in the 1960s”,was held at Sesc Pinheiros under the curatorship of João Bandeira. With free entry, the exhibition brought together 60 works by the three artists, conceived between the years 1960 and 1967.
The premise of the project emerged from shared aesthetic aspects and social implications in the works of Dias, Barros and Gerchman produced during this period. Under the pressure generated by the turbulent political context of those years — just before the military coup of 1964 and exacerbated by the repression unleashed by the new government — an intense response in the artistic world included major solo shows and collective events, such as the Nova Objetividade Brasileira — New Brazilian Objectivity — (at the Museum of Modern Art at Rio de Janeiro, in 1967), which provided an outlet for a renewed appetite for experimentation.
“Making use of the recent constructive legacy and simultaneously appropriating new processes and questions on the agenda at that time, Antonio Dias, Geraldo de Barros and Rubens Gerchman established a poetics with highly specific characteristics. But which, nevertheless, can be approximated in detail, thanks to the skill with which they deal, in their works, with some of the main forces at work in the field of art in the 1960s, and which, though not always in a wholly integrated manner, inform a significant portion of the work which demanded the creation of a new artistic vanguard in Brazil”, observes the curator, João Bandeira.
TITLE OF PROJECT
Dreaming Awake
WHERE
Marres, Maastricht
VISITATION
03/10/2018 – 06/03/2018
CURATORS
Luiza Mello
Valentijn Byvanck
ARTISTS
Luiz Zerbini
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
Dominique Gonzalez-Foester
PRODUCTION
Torsten Uerlings
BOOK DESIGN
João Doria
BUILDING INSTALLATION TEAM
Tymen Dekker
Looy Driesser
Jeroen Evertz
Ralf Nevels
Niklas van Woerden
GARDEN INSTALLATION TEAM
Robin Lock
Irene Walraven
PROMENADE 2/INSTALLATION TEAM
Martial Garfione
Milo Kusmic | 2K communicatie
SPIRAL FOREST/INSTALLATION TEAM
Roman Soroko | Eidotech
PROJECT COLLABORATORS
Yasmin Assade
Geralda Januário
Paulo Januário
PHOTOGRAPHY
Rob van Hoorn
Gert Jan van Rooij
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Automatica
Bill Bowen
Frederico Coelho
Drukkerij Tielen
Natacha Fink
Sebastiaan Hanekroot
Hexspoor
Ayumi Higuchi
Eduardo Kohn
Jorn Konijn
Mariana Mello
Marisa Mello
Jonas Ohlsson
Helena and John Plummer
Gladys Schincariol
Alexsandro Souza | Dinamo design
UNICUM
Hans Vissers
Stichting de Vrolijkheid
Team Marres
The exhibition Dreaming Awake presented a tropical forest in layers. The humidity, the heat, the sounds and a breath-taking multiplicity of species from the Amazon rainforest are invasive forms where the landscape imposes itself on us. Once inside, there is no way to escape. The pressure of the environment is so powerful and hypnotic that it leaves us in a dream-like state.
The project was developed by the curator, Luiza Mello, and the director of Marres, Valentijn Byvanck, in partnership with the artists Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané and Luiz Zerbini.
Luiz Zerbini transformed the groundfloor of the Marres into an immersive environment with real plants. Natureza espiritual da realidade — The Spiritual Nature of Reality — , is an almost living picture where we are touched by the humidity, the heat, the smell of the damp earth and decomposing leaves, and where we marvel at the multiplicity of colours and forms carefully positioned in the space by the artist.
On mounting the stairs, the visitor comes face to face with new layers of this dreamed forest. In Promenade 2, the French artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster invites us to tune out of the external world and experience the sound of a tropical storm. The space is empty; the architecture dissolves so that our attention focuses fully on the sonic environment.
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané presents the film Spiral Forest, where a camera rotates through the Atlantic Rainforest creating interconnected movements. The spectator’s body revolves around this continuous spiral and is projected inside the forest, entering into the flow of the image in the moment. The second work, Phantom, is a virtual reality environment where visitors enter and wander through a forest scanned in black and white, using an Oculus Rift.
The exhibition Dreaming Awake was held at Marres, Maastricht, Netherlands, between March 10th and June 3rd 2018.