Unerasable Memories
Ein historischer Blick auf die Sammlung Videobrasil. Konfliktive Episoden der Geschichte aus der Perspektive bekannter Kunstschaffender. Kurator: Agustín Pérez Rubio.
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Vera Cruz, 2000
Vídeo, 44’20”
Vera Cruz is an experimental project founded on the idea of the “impossibility” of a documentary on the discovery of Brazil. Based on the contents of the famous letter by Pero Vaz de Caminha, this is the video version of an “(im)possible film” that oscillates back and forth between documentary and fiction. From the subtracted image, we see only the “film picture,” old, scratched, worn out by five hundred years of existence and overuse. The sound of the words has also been removed, seeing as the dialogue between conquistador and native, strictly speaking, did not take place. All that is left is the sound of the ocean and the wind, witnesses to the events. The account that remains takes the shape of subtitle-text.
Rosângela Rennó employs photography, appropriation, object, video, and installation to address issues pertaining to the nature of image. The holder of degrees in architecture from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and the visual arts from the Guignard School, she has featured in the biennials of Johannesburg (1997), São Paulo (1994, 2010), and Istanbul (2011), and in shows such as América Latina 1960–2013, at Fondation Cartier (Paris, 2014), and Cruzamentos: Contemporary Art in Brazil, at the Wexner Center for the Arts (Ohio, 2014).
© Still: Rosângela Rennó
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Sammlung Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife
Ein historischer Blick auf die Sammlung Videobrasil. Konfliktive Episoden der Geschichte aus der Perspektive bekannter Kunstschaffender. Kurator: Agustín Pérez Rubio.