‘Glaucis DE MORAIS’

Glaucis DE MORAIS est née en 1972, Brasil. Elle vit et travaille à Porto Alegre.

stills extraits de la vidéo 'Dança!' © De Morais

Insertions: The public space as an experiment in places

To the open sky
“Through the fields, through the deserts
Throught the woods, through the gardens or through the streets,
There's been a time with art work / set in the open sky.
They're in their own places/ in their time; they live outside
Human-being creations, they measure themselves/ in the landscape scale,
From the cosmos to the lived world/ modestly or courageously
They still live through/ of its photographic memory,
They make image.”
Christophe Domino

Walks, diversions, parks, markets, turmoil of people walking fast in the city centres, smells, sounds, movement, dust and thermal sensations. What would it be like to be immersed in the world, in the city and on streets? Each one of us live circumscribed in certain spaces. Spaces organized into streets, neighbourhoods and cities. As an artist I grow from my own experiences in the urban landscape, and in particular the daily routes, to elaborate my art work. I investigate how the space configurations direct our moving around and also in what way we make use of such spaces of transit and life.

From my work entitled Réservé/ Reserved accomplished during my staying at the Cité des Arts in Paris/2003, I research the relationships between external and internal spaces, questioning the idea of being in a place, owning it and living it. The relation of the individuals with their habitat may be studied from many different angles: the anthropological, the social, the political and the philosophical. What I intend is to think about them in an artistic context and question the idea of how an artist may be inserted in the numerous interactions with the space and its surroundings.

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Another matter comes appering in my works. How can the landscape be captured and changed into art images? In what way the contemplation is still possible in a time of speed and information overload? I try to lead the spectators to reduce the speed of his movement or his look at my artistic proposals. The time of these experiences has a feature of deceleration. An attempt to steal the speedy flow in which we daily find ourselves inserted into. The speed of the traffic, the means of communication, people who run up and down and barely notice one another, the 30-second advertisements, the action movies and their fast takes with special effects and no content. Vanishing Landscape is a video projection where I attempt to approach these matters. This project was developed during a trip from Paris to Köln. It's a register of the landscape in video filmed through the window of the train. They are colourful stains, abstract shapes appearing right in front of the viewer due to the train's fast acceleration and the choice of proximity of the focus to the window. However, the video is not just a compilation of these abstract images, but mainly a second in which a fast image, a fragment of the landscape blinks in the image. A moment may not be noticed in case the spectator isn't paying attention to what goes on in the video.

Glaucis de Morais