Pocket Landscape
Galeria Millan
São Paulo, Brazil
2014
Galeria Millan
São Paulo, Brazil
2014
The installation is comprised of four main line segments that overfill the gallery: Two train rails put directly on the floor and two utility poles connected to the local power grid that, in turn, brings energy to the sodium light bulbs – the actual lightning of the exhibition. These strong lines cut the gallery through, surpassing walls and ceilings, and evoke the Cartesian plane: the rails and poles play the role of the x and y axes of a graph, transfiguring the exhibition space into a geometric cube, the area of mathematical abstraction and rationalization.
Issues of scale, space and bodily perception arise here. When the spectator enters the gallery, the mere presence of the wooden pole makes the eyes immediately go up. The sight is constantly driven up and down, far and close, and the visitor is impelled to connect the lines and points, seeking for a sense. Even a complete mental image of the whole Landscape is an impossible task, for the poles, rails and wiring do not fit the gallery: the site specific Landscape exceeds the site.
The wooden poles and bare rails remind of the early processes of mechanical development and modernization. Electricity is brought from the street, contaminating the fray space with the urbanicity of a megacity like São Paulo. It spreads itself and invades each and every location, thus interrupting any possibility of isolation and suffocating spaces of subjectivity.
Issues of scale, space and bodily perception arise here. When the spectator enters the gallery, the mere presence of the wooden pole makes the eyes immediately go up. The sight is constantly driven up and down, far and close, and the visitor is impelled to connect the lines and points, seeking for a sense. Even a complete mental image of the whole Landscape is an impossible task, for the poles, rails and wiring do not fit the gallery: the site specific Landscape exceeds the site.
The wooden poles and bare rails remind of the early processes of mechanical development and modernization. Electricity is brought from the street, contaminating the fray space with the urbanicity of a megacity like São Paulo. It spreads itself and invades each and every location, thus interrupting any possibility of isolation and suffocating spaces of subjectivity.
Wooden poles, electric wiring, rails, sodium bulbs, ceramic
Installation / Variable dimensions
photos: Everton Ballardin