Humus/ the skin does not remain silent and LIGHT

The artwork Light installs a light space that the public is able to transit and where the artist Teresa Pereda proposes to carry out different actions. It is composed of a silhouette of the map of Latin America that lies under the cross of four places, the Meli Huitran Mapu, so that the work becomes a mark and a reflection about who we are and where we want to be. The artist gives earth and wool to the visitors. She also requests the participation and the spontaneous contributions of the public. These actions create a small ritual led by collective gestures. Consecrating a common and multidimensional space, a brief present that forges a conciliation time regarding the American territory that involves us.


The project Light conceives the experience of art as expansion of consciousness, capable of modifying the ones who live it. In Humus/The skin is not silent, Pereda intervenes with an overwhelming natural water spring in the dome of the Porto Alegre Planetarium, placing the spectator in a temple of contemplation of the force of water and the sound of our days immersed in the urban transit.


The chaotic flow of nature warns us about the fragile condition of men. Even if the planetarium experience makes us travel to any sky in the world, in this case, the video images register the powerful impulse made by the water spring coming from an underground stream. 


The sound establishes a rhythmic synchrony between the movement of the emerging water with hundreds of sound records of urban noise and human voices.


The movement of the particles interacts with human sounds reinforcing a rhythmic cycle that evidences the pulses of nature and man. Space of convergences and divergences. Nature and urban life. Both at risk as they emerge: none of them are silent.

Km: 2004

Venue: Centro Cultural da UFRGS | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Address: R. Eng. Luiz Englert, 333

City: Porto Alegre

Brazil

Artist(s):

Teresa Pereda (ARG)

From 2017/10/04

To 2017/12/15