Drifters
2016
Luiza Baldan
The book Drifters, the result of the project developed by Luiza Baldan and Jonas Arrabal, presents texts by the pair and by invited researchers, as well as images recorded during the first half of 2016 in Guanabara Bay. The name “drifters” derives from the traceable oceanic buoys distributed around Guanabara Bay. For the artistic project, these buoys were transformed into pinhole cameras by the photographer Thiago Barros to collect images of the bay. Once a week, over a period of four months, Luiza, Jonas, and often Thiago himself, set out in the boats of Prooceano/Projeto Grael, organizations dedicated to the monitoring of the seas, to collect the records caught by the buoys. On board the boat, in addition to collecting the records of the drifters, Luiza and Jonas created new images of the bay and produced reflections and texts that form part of this publishing project. The poster that accompanies the book reproduces some of the negatives recorded by the drifters.
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