JANAINA WAGNER
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I am molten matter sliding from the core of Earth to tell you interior things - Galeria Sardenberg (BR)
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A comet in your eyes – Sursock Museum (Beirut, LB)
Quando o segundo sol chegar (Cometa) – Centro Cultural do Cariri (Crato, BR)
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Era uma vez: história do céu e da terra – Pinacoteca de São Paulo (São Paulo, BR)
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Summertime – SUPERCOLLIDER - Brand Library (Los Angeles, USA)
Imaginar futuros com gestos silenciosos – Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (Montevideo, UY)
22ª Bienal SESC Videobrasil - SESC 24 de Maio (São Paulo, BR)
Ópera Citoplasmática – Museu Oscar Niemeyer (Curitiba, BR)
Aliens are temporary - Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien (Berlin, DE)
Thinking beyond: moving-images for a post-pandemic world – Manifattura Tabacchi (Florence, IT)
Cuando no hay sombra es mediodía - Nube Gallery (Santa Cruz, BO)
A natural history of ruins - Pivô (São Paulo, BR)
Casa Carioca – MAR Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, BR)
Panorama 21 - Les revenants - Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains (Turcoing, FR)
Festival Mondes Possibles - Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers (Paris, FR)
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Ensaio de Tração - Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo, BR)
Permanências e destruições - Torre H (Rio de Janeiro, BR)
Bolsa Pampulha - Museu de Arte da Pampulha (Belo Horizonte, BR)
Hipótese e horizonte - Observatório - (São Paulo, BR)
4º Prêmio EDP nas Artes – Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo, BR)
Estado de Suspensão – Coletor (São Paulo, BR)
FRANKENSTEIN COW (GREEN FLESH, GREEN FLASH) | 2021
10'
Video Installation – Projection and Vertical LED Panel (250 x 150 cm) + Painted 16mm film and Digital
Produced by Gasworks London and Triangle Network
Mary Wolestonecraft is a feminist activist and writer. Mother of Mary Shelley, she died shortly after giving birth to her. Growing up, Shelley would go to her tomb stone and tell stories to it. The remains of Wollstonecraft are no longer buried here: they were removed with the disruption of the railway. The stone that Mary Shelley used to tell stories to is still the same. The installation portrays a tender Frankenstein Nelore cow as the main character of the solastalgia of the present time. In 1816, the sky across Europe turned red thanks to the eruption of Mount Tambora. The romantic and surreal atmospheres of J.M. Turner, John Crome and Caspar D. Friedrich are the portrait and documents of this era. It was in that twilight summer that a nineteen-years-old girl named Mary Shelley wrote the first science fiction in history, about a tender, lonely animated meat machine: Frankenstein – or the modern Prometheus. In 2022, however, the volcano became human-kind, and Frankenstein, a cow. History tells that whoever has the good fortune to see a Green Flash will have a great change in his life. With the work I wanted to give the Frankenstein Nelore cow a Green Flash, finally breaking her cyclical destiny.
Curated by Tainá Azeredo