CabinCentro Cultural São Paulo - Brazil.2015
2014. Art installation (wood,bricks,texts,videos)
2014. Art installation (wood,bricks,texts,videos)
2014. Art installation (wood,bricks,texts,videos)
2014. Art installation (wood,bricks,texts,videos)
2014. Art installation (wood,bricks,texts,videos)
Project exhibited at the Centro Cultural São Paulo in 2015, consisted of a spatializing fanzine. A fanzine is an unofficial publication, handcrafted and independent, which, although it originated in the United States in 1929, reached its peak of expansion with the Punk movement in the 1980s, serving as a vehicle for the DIY (Do It Yourself) ideology. The intention behind the project, developed in collaboration with the artist and curator Bruno Mendonça, was to absorb this peculiar characteristic of the zine—both aesthetically and conceptually—in its refusal to adhere to a standardized aesthetic established by commercial publications. The aim was to allow this material to become contaminated with texts that included the voices of artists and theorists critiquing the institutionalized art system itself.

By spatializing this format, which originally holds only an editorial language, the project understood that it could expand the spatial qualities intended for both the images and texts, incorporating videos that conceptually dialogued with the themes explored in the notes and publications scattered around the exhibition room. The exhibition then included both videos referencing the punk universe in documentary and music video formats, as well as video art with approaches that, in some way, echoed the connotations expressed in the selected texts.

The Cabine project, being a network of artistic appropriations—both of these texts and the videos chosen to be shown in the same space—can therefore be understood as a curatorial action. It involved selecting aspects from each language that conceptually interlink, thus blurring the boundaries between artist and curator. It also works with the concept of contamination, as the languages intersect, and, most importantly, it creates within an institutional space a place for experimentation, aimed at flexibilizing the practices of museums and galleries, which are typically understood as spaces that tend toward a rigidification of the many forms of language.