Breathing: Indigenous Becoming
09/18/2022 — 11/20/2022
Casa Museu Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
The Breathing Project was created in 2004 and consists of inviting contemporary artist to intervene in the house-museum exhibition circuit, which is the Eva Klabin Foundation. The exhibition Indigenous Becoming presents the work of the artists Denilson Baniwa and Gustavo Caboco, both of whom deal with the warp and weft of time and space within the body of the House Museum, located between the forest and the lagoon. The running theme of the occupation is transformation and memory. In an exercise in discovery, the artists visit the forest behind the Museum House, the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon, the Cantagalo Court, and the house’s permanent collection. From the forest, and the stones and living beings found there, the artists extract their own perceptions. The exhibition includes interventions in the environment of the house, along with live transmissions from the forest and sound interventions involving the sounds of the Lagoon. The artists suggest that it is reality that is fragile, not the imagination. Our imagination works in partnership with art and possesses the concreteness of a physical body. It is guided by the language of dreams, which communicates through the impulses of duration and becoming. Art has the capacity to bring us into direct contact with this substrate that is the potency of life.
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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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