Work, the social space where people operate producing goods or services, for a social or cultural benefit, creating ties, and establishing behaviors. lt is al the same time, a place where individuality is deconfigured, transforming them into one more piece of the intricate gear system that makes up the current labor pawning their own creative powers. A place of annulments. 

Annulments

Result of 18 days peeling the white paint that was covering the 4 walls of a room in an abandoned house, to reveal the different shades of blue from old paintings. 
Nughedu Santa Vittoria, Sardenha, Itália. Foto | Photo: Kolbrún Inga Söring

Restauro

Displacement of wooden house about to be demolished  to the riverside, where it could slowly rot. 

Déplacement, o amor se banha na morte ( love bathes in death)

65kg of Fabric , 8 meters of rope and spot lights. The artwork could be seen by the cracks i the walls. 

Velato

65kg of second hand Fabric. Result of fall from 10 meters high. Development of "Velato". 

Die Dauer (The Duration)

Reverse is a photography project, where investing the object, implies investing the look and with it, the thought and a new perception on what we see and what looks at us. Consider the reverse of household ítem, anticipates an attitude of immersion in his role concealed, disguised. Also in the dynamics in which the notions of valid and improper, lawful and useless, erected and framed the doctrine of our societies. 
This act validates the possibility of considering the domestic object as a sphere, rolling, without a single point of support, where all edges are useful and visible. with its uncovered structure 

Reverse

GRAFTS is a reflection of the gestures that build urban epidermis. Wrapping, covering, bandaging are recognizable acts on the large urban stage. The city is decoded as ductile manufacture of the collective behavior and with it a series of protection and concealment strategies. 
Taming these strategies allows us to reconstruct a new language on domestic objects, humans, and our immediate space, home. The displacement and recontextualization of these gestures allow plastic and performative reading of the urban epidermis and a reflection on the acts that invade our daily life. 

GRAFTS Phase II

Going out has become our most immediate goal, to interact and retake our social roles trying to recognize ourselves again in that outside that apparently defines us.

Under this scheme, magazines, so abundant at home, they have always been a window to the world. An aspirational life model for a woman who considers herself empowered and successful. It is through these women that I find in magazines, that I seek to visit my house under a different gaze and build other worlds with them.

The construction of the image does not seek to camouflage the nature of paper, which becomes visible in the intrinsic nature of the cut, but it does seek to make the gaze uncomfortable, to force every day and the scale of what we usually know. To rethink our domestic space in a city environment, dynamic and spontaneous as it happens in the city and in life.

I USED TO BE READY

Diving
videoperformance, 2´19´´. Sound, color. Full HD. 

When we thought about creating a work during the quarantine, the direction was on how to bring the dialogue of the domestic universe to the recorded performance, which became almost a scenic element. As if disorder became a confrontation before the profusion of shapes and colors of objects. What is there about poetry and disturbance in domestic work?
What issues do commonplace point out? The attempt is to refer to an abyss that we cannot deal with, like an infinite hole.
Collaborator: http://www.artconnect.com/profile/bica

Diving

Irresolute suspensions 


Confronting the images of Apt 22, we have the feeling we are in the midst of an unfolding narrative. The characters are absorbed in shadowy behavior that for us, the viewers, are charged with tension. Explanation is not forthcoming: firstly, do we have only one or several narratives? Is it the same protagonist in each image? Is this a victim of a crime or the perpetrator? 

Adriana Granado produced self-portraits during the two years she lived in different apartments and rented rooms in the city of São Paulo. The series boldly follows the tradition of staged photography, cultivated by the likes of Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall and Juno Calypso. 

Similarly, Granado's images tack heavily towards cinema, especially the suspense and thriller genres. However, while acknowledging cinema as reference, the peculiarity of Apto 22 must be reiterated and the pictures beg to be explored further. We cannot forget the fact that these are photographs and not film stills from a moving image. Such a condition translates into an inescapable difference in relation to the cinematic narrative - the murky character of the images does provide the possible closure of a solved mystery - there is no resolution. We remain immersed, suspended in a triad of inquiry: “What happened?” (Past), “What is happening?” (Present) and “What will happen next?” (Future). In addition to this static fluctuation in the suspense, there is the powerful plastic construction of the scenes. Intensity is heightened by the composition of strong colors, the lighting, the scenery and the staging. Their calculated weight carry the story, amplify the mystery and strengthen the images’ charge. 

Text by Pedro Bonfim Leal/ Translation by John O´Donnell




Apt22

In this artwork I am fascinated by the plastic material that reminds me of a sponge sea creature, in Latin called Hexactinellida, which I used as the title.

Hexactinellida

This artwork consists of three small installations, combining paper with geometric folds and pieces of mineral stones, cat whiskers and dead insects. The stones, whiskers and insects are found objects. The forms of these objects relate interestingly to the geometry of the folds of the paper and the sheet itself.

Compositions

 In this artwork I reflect on the potential of appearing and disappearing, existence and nonexistence. In other words the process of transformation applied to the visual images of white statuettes.

White Cube

One evening I was siting and watching the plants in my room and because there was hardly any light, these plants started to look different and mysterious. They became inspiring to me as I was becoming more and more aware of their changing appearance. My work is often about changing appearance of natural phenomena in order to reveal other layers of reality.

Nocturnes

Dear Berliners, I need to borrow light-box (standard paper proportion, any dimensions) for exhibition in Kreuzberg, from June 6 – 29, 2014. Anyone? Thank you

borrowing light-box

Fashion Victim (installation, art/fashion concept)
 is part of the international exhibition in Berlin
"Berlin Artists Going Live"  opening 27.4.2012, Spandauer Straße 2,  Eagl gallery, Berlin

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