Galeria Vermelho: Senses
Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo presents three exhibitions linked by their exploration of the senses, both present and concealed.
Aquário Suave Sonora
Aquário Suave Sonora (Smooth Sound-Making Aquarium) combines experimental music with sculptures, installations and performance. For this exhibition artist collective Chelpa Ferro created a recording studio, which consists of two booths with acoustic treatment, which will be used as a place for rehearsals by bands invited by the collective.
Created in 1995 by the artists Barrão, Sergio Mekler and Luiz Zerbini, Chelpa Ferro works with the investigation of acoustic and electronic sound sources. Their work uses technology to explore the multidisciplinary possibilities of dialogue with cinema, video and performance.
A willingness for listening and discussing the relations between sound and space provides the basis for Chelpa Ferro’s works. The result sees a shuffling of the senses through different procedures.
O Informante
Simultaneously recording the temperature and relative humidity of the air, the thermohygrograph is commonly used in museums and exhibition spaces to measure the humidity of the air. The instrument is used as a means of controlling the natural deterioration from climatic variations on paintings, papers or sculptures.
In O Informante, Henrique Cesar uses the thermohygrograph as a tool for materialising the invisible and the intangible. During the 26 days of the installation’s exhibition the information transcribed by the thermohygrograph on sheets of graph paper will be presented side-by-side on the walls of the exhibition space, creating a large graphic.
By making the atmospheric circumstances and conditions of the environment visible, O Informante aims to reveal the invisible mass of the exhibition space, essentially transforming it into an artwork.
Cinthia Marcelle and Tiago Mata Machado
Artist Cinthia Marcelle and filmmaker Tiago Mata Machado are presenting two videos made in partnership: O Século (The Century) and Rua de Mão Única (One Way Street).
O Século suggests a metaphor about life in the large urban centres. The film begins with only the sounds of running people, until the first object is thrown into the camera’s view. The film develops to a crescendo in which objects of every sort are being thrown into the field of view. The street, the backdrop of the action, becomes a desolate painting of accumulated objects, dust and smoke, though bereft of human presence. Without offering solutions for what appears to be an endless loop of fighting, it suggests the need to imagine new political strategies to break the current impasse of democracy.
Rua de Mão Única works as a reverse shot for O Século. It reveals the physical conflict between the unseen protesters in O Século. Both works point to the constant conflict between politics and society.
The exhibitions are on display at Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil until Saturday 10 May 2014.
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