Pele: matéria e alma

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Brasil
2022

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Pele Por Pedra

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Human beings and nature, a woman and a mountain in confrontation with power and powerlessness, strength and fragility, putting the impact of environmental and human transformation into perspective.
Why the need to dig and delve? All living matter can be seen as similar. The visceral mineral and the visceral human that pulsate with vitality and express life.
The centre of the mountain, cut into pieces by a man's hand, oozes water in silence.
The beauty of the interior landscape is rarely contemplated.

Frames from the video-dance: Pele Por Pedra / Frames from the video-dance: Pele Por Pedra
2018

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Noite

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2022

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Quietudes vivas


Iniciação

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2022

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V canto

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2019

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Untitled

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Amazónia

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Untitled

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Brasil 2023

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Womb

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2022

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Untitled


Socolari

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2022

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s/título

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2024

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V canto II


s/título

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Brasil
2024

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Na Ruína

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Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2012

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Macroma

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Brasil
2010

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s/título

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Brasil
2024

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Firebird

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Brasil
2010

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Untitled

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Brasil
2023

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Further on


Igarapés

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Amazónia, Brasil
2010

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Nagruta

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Brasil
2010

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Ruínas

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A ruin is necessarily beautiful, although this beauty can only make us go on a romantic journey to experience the sublime, but it can also be too close to the real and become a disastrous document that provides answers to very current concerns. It's not just a physical place but a series of ideas, sensations and feelings that are developed from the place. What is the pleasure in contemplating it? 

The specific atmosphere of those who find themselves in a ruin, the attempt to recover an era, history, the unity of meaning, the absent, the memory, make us aware of the non-existent. This experience almost allows us to re-signify what is meaningless, or rather, to re-signify what is meaningful. Melancholy arises as a result of questioning the subject, language, the world and one's place in contemporary society. Melancholy or just nostalgia, loneliness, sadness or love are all signs of a modern individuality that is self-contempt and can no longer believe in the illusion of its own image.

The duality always present in a ruin, from its vertical construction to the natural and progressive state of horizontality, simultaneously shows us the tension between construction and destruction, the natural and the artificial, isolation and the crowd, culture and massification, and also fragility and impotence. I think it's important to draw attention to thinking and doing, as well as to what happens between the two, to lightness and weight and to the energy that oscillates between these two poles, determining our thinking towards the same hidden energy everywhere. Bringing together things that are perceived in different ways to form a complex whole and a stage for a new perception. A place of meditation but also of search and expansion, the ruins transit between what we were and what we are/this will be and this was, turning time into a concrete experience through physical space.

Ruins have been intermittently taken up by contemporary practices as a theme through which various investigations and enquiries are carried out. In the artistic field, there is an interest in the procedural aspect and the recording of space and time, and many works have taken ruins as a motif for experimentation in order to process their true internal contradictions. Responding to a series of internal and personal contradictions in an attempt to fit the chaos of the past and urban chaos into the present and understand how to live with it.

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UnSchool