2017/2018 Between Flights #5

English: I can only start this text with a very cliché comment: time always goes faster than I would like. December 2017: another journey involving documents, luggage, airports, homesickness, expectations, and luggage. Another brief visit to São Paulo - Brazil, my city full of contradictions, so loved and hated in the same intensity, that embraces…

Whites

English: Open to the Londoner perceptions, during an urban journey I was blown away by the city that passed through the front window of the double-decker bus. As on many winter days, it was a rainy, gray, almost white day. I could not see the outside of the window perfectly, I had to trust the…

Stillness and Movement

English: During the Low Residency period, we had the pleasure of talking with German artist and researcher living in London Sigune Hamann, who works primarily with photography and video. Her inspiration comes from different sources, and one of the main motivations in her work is in the interest of observing people and engaging in moments,…

Alice’s Cabinet

English: “The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.” Marcel Duchamp, April 1957 Just before I faced the adventure of returning to London I had the…

Textures

English: In my first week here in town I found Mirella Brandi, a friend artist who I respect and admire. She was passing along with a dance company (Marc Brew Company), a collaboration between Brazil and UK, who were here to perform in London and Glasgow.  Mirella is one of the artists that I search in…