Lançamento
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Type
installation
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Materials
coloured photograph, red light, milk/wisdom tooth, green ice, blue walls
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Size
2x2x3m aprox
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YEAR
2016
“and like consanguineous, double stars, we shine from one another in the darkness”
- Herberto Helder (a carta da paixão)
Escola De
lançamento responds to high school times, affairs, and male authority. From 2005 to 2011, I was a high school student at ESAF in their visual arts program; this work appears 5 years later.
Combining (1) Brecht's opera for schools (“He Said Yes/He Said No“) where agreeing is the lesson to follow, (2) my memories of the lived power relations of that time, and (3) the traditional saying olho por olho dente por dente (an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth), the installation unfolds into a revealing trio. A wisdom tooth is stuck in a wall, a phallic iced sculpture melts, and a red light covers the face of a teenage body.
lançamento translates to launching:
an event to celebrate or introduce something new,
an occasion when a ship is put into water or
when a spacecraft is sent into space for the first time.
