URBE - Mostra de Arte Pública - Bom Retiro, SP

Public art exhibition realized in November 2016. Artists: Anaisa Franco, Iara Freiberg e Guto Requena

Tell me a secret (2016) by Guto RequenaINSTITUTO URBE

URBE Mostra de Arte Pública - Edition 2

The second edition of the URBE - Public Art Exhibition was held in November 2016 and was curated by Alessandra Marder, Felipe Brait and Reinaldo Botelho. The exhibition was held in Bom Retiro, São Paulo, a neighborhood characterized by constant territorial transformations and a strong multicultural vocation. This second edition reinforced the essence of the project: the investigation of public space through contemporary artistic practices, having as a curatorial axis the idea of transversal city. Anaisa Franco, Iara Freiberg and Guto Requena were the three artists invited to create interventions based on the relationship between city, individuals and disputed territory, urban memory and on the way places are created, invented and reinvented by use. The objective of the exhibition was to reflect on the use of the city and to discuss new forms of occupation of the public space.

Fluctuation (2016) by Iara FreibergINSTITUTO URBE

"Flutuação" Artist: Iara Freiberg

Iara Freiberg (São Paulo, 1977). His work is characterized by developing interventions that are intrinsically linked to architecture and to relations with space. Since 2002 he has participated in exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. She develops and participates in special projects and independent initiatives, carrying out interventions in the public space, in unoccupied buildings and unconventional places. He won the Funarte contemporary art award in 2013 and the Iberê Camargo scholarship in 2006.

Fluctuation (2016) by Iara FreibergINSTITUTO URBE

Flutuação, by the artist Iara Freiberg, is an exercise that investigates the traditional volumes of the urban landscape.

Fluctuation (2016) by Iara FreibergINSTITUTO URBE

Markings. drawn directly onto architectural surfaces operate as furrows, voids, and gaps, as provocations that traverse the traces of buildings, dismantling the composition of current urbanism.

Fluctuation (2016) by Iara FreibergINSTITUTO URBE

This work leads to a spatialization that escapes from stability, from the determination of place and it suggests movement, displacement to intervention, a mixture of concreteness and abstraction.

Fluctuation (2016) by Iara FreibergINSTITUTO URBE

The work acts between temporality and spatiality, reorienting the perception between depth and distance, proposing a positive void. It may seem like a dead end but it opens up to imaginary spaces, creates a place of new possibilities.

Fluctuation (2016) by Iara FreibergINSTITUTO URBE

Flutuação deliberately deflects the idea of surface to another way of composing space.

Sweet reflection (2016) by Anaisa FrancoINSTITUTO URBE

"Doce reflexão" Artist: Anaisa Franco

Anaisa Franco (Uberlândia, 1981). Multimedia artist, designer, sculptor, designer. Graduated in fine arts from the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation and master in digital art and technology from the University of Plymouth (England). Works and exhibits in countries of America, Asia and Europe, participating in national and international exhibitions, since 2002, with works that explore the relation between art and technology.

Sweet reflection (2016) by Anaisa FrancoINSTITUTO URBE

Interactive artistic installation in a parametric pavilion format.

Sweet reflection (2016) by Anaisa FrancoINSTITUTO URBE

Upon entering the pavilion, the public could have their face photographed, mapped and transformed into chocolate and pancakes through 3-D printing technology.

Sweet reflection (2016) by Anaisa FrancoINSTITUTO URBE

Some photos were later reproduced in adhesive format and applied to the external wall of the pavilion, creating the perception of a "hive" of faces.

Sweet reflection (2016) by Anaisa FrancoINSTITUTO URBE

Sweet reflection (2016) by Anaisa FrancoINSTITUTO URBE

The project sought to rescue and map the multicultural origin of the neighborhood and its history of immigration in a temporary memorial built from the process of interaction with the public.

Tell me a secret (2016) by Guto RequenaINSTITUTO URBE

"Me conta um segredo?" Artist: Guto Requena

Guto Requena (Sorocaba, 1979). Architect and master in architecture from the University of São Paulo, Guto is a researcher of cyberculture and of the impact of new technologies on architecture and design. He was a visiting professor at institutions such as FAAP, PUC-RJ, Unicamp, USP, Belas Artes and Mackenzie. He was a columnist for Folha de S. Paulo newspaper and currently develops design, architecture and urbanism series for television, cinema and the internet.

Tell me a secret (2016) by Guto RequenaINSTITUTO URBE

A work composed of a set of interactive urban furniture that sought to break the boundaries between design, architecture and urbanism through digital technologies.

Tell me a secret (2016) by Guto RequenaINSTITUTO URBE

The project was created starting from a simple invitation to passers-by to share a secret of their intimacy.

Tell me a secret (2016) by Guto RequenaINSTITUTO URBE

Tell me a secret (2016) by Guto RequenaINSTITUTO URBE

Tell me a secret (2016) by Guto RequenaINSTITUTO URBE

The statements, recorded anonymously, were successively stored and made available randomly in the "Collecting Chamber of Secrets", the centerpiece of the work.

Tell me a secret (2016) by Guto RequenaINSTITUTO URBE

The project was completed by an activation of the rest of the furniture, through a reactive game of light and sound.

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