Despertar/Éveil

03/14/2014 — 06/01/2014

SESC Santana, São Paulo, SP

The exhibition Despertar/Éveil/Alive is inspired by a distant and primordial moment: the origin of life, the coming alive of matter. The exhibition brings together kinetic and robotic works which use movement to express the essence of the living. By way of various technologies, these works cause their components move, shake, wriggle and unfold in a way that evokes biological processes and primitive living beings. The works chosen for Despertar/Éveil/Alive present living forms in their nascent, imprecise states and thus take leave of the human figure to return to the beginnings of the organic world. They are of the order of the pre, the sub or maybe the intra-human. Not a single work among them even represents an animal species or a recognizable organ or organism. Thanks to this semantic imprecision and the rudimentary forms, they confront us with the living in its secret and intimate dimension.

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Automatica has been developing cultural projects since 2005, working in the creation, production, curation, management, coordination and consultancy of exhibitions, educational programs, publications and other activities related to artistic production. It works with artists, curators, art critics, art historians, cultural institutions, public and private sponsors. It participates in public notices and awards, and prepares projects for incentive laws in the three spheres of public administration.

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