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Claudia Fontes: 'The Slow Bird' at the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo

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7 September - 9 December 2018
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  • Installation View © Leo Eloy

    Installation View © Leo Eloy

  • Installation View © Leo Eloy

    Installation View © Leo Eloy

  • Installation View © Leo Eloy

    Installation View © Leo Eloy

  • Installation View © Leo Eloy

    Installation View © Leo Eloy

  • Installation View © Leo Eloy

    Installation View © Leo Eloy

  • Installation View © Leo Eloy

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Installation View © Leo Eloy

Installation View © Leo Eloy

 A short film of Claudia Fontes' section at the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo (filmed and produced by the Bienal de São Paulo):

 

 

For her exhibition entitled The Slow Bird , Claudia Fontes starts from a metanarrative: a fictional book of the same name whose contents are unknown, except for some fragments and their material vestiges. Sources and invited artists present works that activate the approximations between visual arts, literature and translation through experiences that propose an expanded temporality, alternative to the modern fetish of speed:

 

The Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion is a meeting point of human and non-human life, each with its temporality and its almost opposite ways of being in the world. This exhibition takes this polarity as a premise and proposes the image of the slow bird as an antidote to the ideal of speed that the building represents, with the ambition to generate conditions of observation that attract and retain attentive reading of the visitor. The slow bird does not work in our exhibition as a theme or idea to illustrate, but rather as an ambiguous figure offered as common territory from which the invited artists have initiated unique and diverse creative processes. The works accompany a police tale in which aspects of the curatorial flight of the slow bird are revealed: to consider the spectator as a reader, the curator as a translator, the artistic fact as evidence of an enigma, and the certainty that this enigma has as many possibilities of resolution as readers. [CF]

 

Participating Artists
Ben Rivers (UK, 1972)
Claudia Fontes (ARG, 1964)
Daniel Bozhkov (BUL / USA, 1959)
Elba Bairon (BOL, 1947)
Katrín Sigurdardóttir (ISL / USA, 1967)
Pablo Martín Ruiz (ARG, 1964)
Paola Sferco ( ARG, 1974)
Roderick Hietbrink (HOL, 1975)
Sebastián Castagna (ARG, 1965)
Žilvinas Landzbergas (LTU, 1979)

 

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    The Slow Bird

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