Title: Passagem de Peões
Year: 2006
Link to Vídeo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2UzmVHCWpk
Out of context is the keynote of this work. The idea is to question rules and laws (laws of street code) that are imposed to us. On an almost desert place, the crosswalk adopts a new sense. Its configuration is simultaneously familiar and strange, it takes us to the concept of unheimlich.
On the other hand, the pink colour of chalk incorporates a certain irony. Luigi Pirandello said to the purpose of humour, that it participates in the process through whose each thing is transformed on it’s opposite and enters in consonance with a more essential and subterranean reality, than that one that is presented to us by logic. The “non sense” of this work results precisely on the subversion of common reality. If this subversion exists in the painting and the performance, it becomes more evident in the video when I manipulate the reality in order to transform a quiet place, in a place of big affluence of traffic.
This work only exists in digital support now, because of its ephemeral nature.
Year: 2006
Link to Vídeo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2UzmVHCWpk
Out of context is the keynote of this work. The idea is to question rules and laws (laws of street code) that are imposed to us. On an almost desert place, the crosswalk adopts a new sense. Its configuration is simultaneously familiar and strange, it takes us to the concept of unheimlich.
On the other hand, the pink colour of chalk incorporates a certain irony. Luigi Pirandello said to the purpose of humour, that it participates in the process through whose each thing is transformed on it’s opposite and enters in consonance with a more essential and subterranean reality, than that one that is presented to us by logic. The “non sense” of this work results precisely on the subversion of common reality. If this subversion exists in the painting and the performance, it becomes more evident in the video when I manipulate the reality in order to transform a quiet place, in a place of big affluence of traffic.
This work only exists in digital support now, because of its ephemeral nature.
