What if the Dusty Lenses Break?

We are the sum of what we desire with what we inherit, even if involuntarily. As far as thought is concerned, our legacy is replete with atavistic reflections of logical, scientificist reason, based on artificial polarities and innumerable relationships of chance. Even in the seemingly harmless details of our culture, we see the oversimplifications that make our world understanding.

Among these is the privilege of vision as a way of access in the sense of the real and in the elaboration of its truths. This preponderance of the gaze, though often misrepresented, still guides and directs our apprehension of the world and construction of thought, perpetuating the certainty that lenses - our devices, techniques, and logical systems - work and should always work. It is, of course, an illusion. Things will probably collapse even if our theories prove that this is impossible. The reality is more and less than our lenses allow to see and it is fundamental to renew the doubt about our machines of certainty.

The exhibition "what if the dusty lenses break?" brings together artists who deconstruct, promote fissures and raise questions amidst scientific convictions. Each of the three artists cracks their own lenses and problematizes a certain device. Marcone Moreira, through procedures of appropriation and ethnographic observation, compares models of circulation of products and people, as well as occupation of the territory. Thiago Rocha Pitta, by adherence and synergy with the tectonic and changeable nature, reestablishes the protagonism and becoming proper of the landscape, usually considered as an indifferent and passive means. Eduardo Berliner attributes to the images, the supports and the artistic invoice choices and resistances, by intuitive and resilient insistence, letting them direct both the discourse and the form of the works. Thus, artists - who present more recent developments of their respective research - propose alternatives to established forms of knowledge.

Research and Curatorial Department
Paulo Miyada, Carolina Mologni, Julia Lima, Priscyla Gomes and Olivia Ardui