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Sala de Vídeo Janaina Wagner – Museu de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo, BR)
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Quando o segundo sol chegar (Cometa) – Centro Cultural do Cariri (Crato, BR)
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At the End of a World - Färgfabriken Konsthall (Stockholm, SE)
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)
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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)






VENTURA | 2018
12'

Someone passing by Nantes (France) can find in the streets a mechanical elephant, measuring 12 meters high and 8 meters wide, built of wood and iron. It is a non-identical replica of another one, built in 2003 for the commemoration of Julius Verne's centenary of death. But Verne's world may be far from ours: tourists have replaced travelers and adventurers. Closer to Drummond's elephant, it remains for this simple pachyderm to go out looking for friends, in a bored world, who does not believe in animals anymore and doubts things.

Ventura is an essay on the worlds, creatures and fantasies that inhabit the days of now: strange blurred mixture of a so called magnificent progress and sad nature. Mr. Ventura was born and raised in Angola, surrounded by elephants. Today, 40 years later, he makes his living by caring for an iron and wood elephant - a monumental tourism attraction, a mixture of automaton and contraption, lost in a city in the interior of France: "Here, my poor elephant / ready to leave / and search for friends / in a world already tirer / that no longer believes in animals / and doubts things."

Curated by Luana Fortes, Diego Mauro e João Golçalves
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