Nicolás Robbio: The Architecture of insomnia Rosângela Rennó: Vera Cruz
Through May 20
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In his current solo show, The Architecture of insomnia, Nicolás Robbio resorts to the umbrella man conspiracy theory (about one of the supposedly involved people in the murder of JFK) to discuss the impossibility of ever reaching an understanding of reality by means of reason. In the installation, Keep right, diagrams and images from the history of Latin America, mixed with images of the record of the attack, create deviations and bifurcations in the investigation of the myth.
Monuments for an American Tale is composed of representations of monuments. Robbio resorts to statues installed in the Americas which refer to possible historical distortions. The artist creates cardboard banners for each of the monuments and, by displaying them from the back—showing their precarious structure—comments on the history that made them in the first place.
Robbio darkened the gallery’s entire second floor for the exhibition of his new video Deviations. Moving against a black background, tubular light bulbs feebly light the exhibition room and, all of a sudden, are hit by a blast from a shotgun as if light, or knowledge, were a fleeting thing
Projected in the gallery’s cinema, Rosângela Rennó’s film Vera Cruz is an experimental project founded on the idea of the “impossibility” of a documentary about the discovery of Brazil. Based on the content of the famous letter describing the “discovery” of Brazil written by the Portuguese navy clerk Pero Vaz de Caminha, Vera Cruz is a copy of an (im)possible film. From the disappearing image we see only the “image of the film,” worn by the 500 years of its existence. The sound has also disappeared. All that is left of the report is the film’s captions with possible dialogues between the Portuguese sailors arriving to the new found land.
Exhibition:
Nicolás Robbio–The Architecture of insomnia (rooms 1, 2 and façade)
Film:
Vera Cruz, de Rosângela Rennó (Sala Antonio—projection room)
2000. 44 minutes. Rating: suitable for all ages. Seating capacity: 30.
