Home

Rivane Neuenschwander & Cao Guimarães
Inventário das Pequenas Mortes (Sopro), 2000

Still: Courtesy the artists

Still: Courtesy the artistsy

Still: Courtesy the artists

Rivane Neuenschwander & Cao Guimarães

Collection

Single-channel video installation, b/w, silent
5 min

Inventário das Pequenas Mortes (Sopro) translated Inventory of Small Deaths (Blow) shows a soap bubble blown across the Brazilian landscape. One sees slightly distorted palm trees and shimmering clouds through the transparent membrane. The bubble acts both as a lens that mutates the visual observations and as a point of orientation for the viewer in the silhouetted surroundings. It is an extremely vulnerable creature that carries the world within itself and also on its changing surface. Occasionally it divides and reconstitutes itself like an amoeba that is forever changing its shape but still remaining essentially the same. The ephemeral, unstable object is nevertheless remarkable for its resilience, and its ability to endlessly transform itself. Occasionally the film cuts to another offstage in the bubble's trajectory, or is it another bubble, another small death?

Rivane Neuenschwander: *1967 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil | Living and working in London, United Kingdom and Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Cao Guimaraes: *1965 in Minas Gerais, Brazil | Living and working in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

artist's website

http://www.caoguimaraes.com/

RELATED PROGRAM

freq_wave: 7 seas curated by Carl Michael von Hausswolff

Walid Raad
Better be watching the clouds, 2000/2017

Mario García Torres
Carta Abierta a Dr. Atl, 2005

Atopia – Migration, Heritage and Placelessness May 14–October 5, 2014 | MAZ, Guadalajara, Mexico

Artists

Rivane Neuenschwander & Cao Guimarães

Rivane Neuenschwander & Cao GuimarãesInventário das Pequenas Mortes (Sopro), 2000

Rivane Neuenschwander & Cao Guimarães
Inventário das Pequenas Mortes (Sopro), 2000