DISCOVER NIKKEI
02/19/2018NOVAS EFERVESCÊNCIAS 2018-2019
07/03/2019The project LOOP was selected for Novas Efervescências 2018-2019 (New Effervescence 2018-2019) of
Porto Seguro Cultural Space
From 05/11 to 07/21
Alameda Barão de Piracicaba, 610
Campos Elíseos
01216-012São Paulo – SP, Brazil
LOOP
“In this visual installation, the public is invited to intervene by touching and rotating the cylinders coated with white Canson paper. The work plays with the double meaning of the English term “loop”: a shape, order or path of movement that is circular or twisted in itself, and the basic pattern of human fingerprint. The set of cylinders allude to the traditional Buddhist prayer wheels and while addressing the untouchable and the sacred, discusses the culture of touch. As they are touched, the three-dimensional pieces gradually change color and absorb the traces left by the spectators. In the conception of the artist, for whom the public often see only the superficial layer of beauty, this is a more direct and extreme artwork, discussing issues such as alterity and strangeness, as well as the association of white to beauty and purity.” Curatorial text.
