21.III.20 is the name of the project and the start date of this collaborative work among Cau Silva and Gabi. Moved by the distance between us and touched by the changes amidst the emergence of coronavirus, an online shared text was the solution to gather sensations, ideas, and reports about what surrounds us. Updated twice a day from two different places (Germany and Brazil), the text is like an open diary that enables the public to find an indirect and subjective conversation, with new updates every day. This unending text leads the audience to a frank and intimate encounter with a third body. The days flow as the text shapes virtual data, transforming cyberspace into a reality loophole. As the individual pieces from Cau Silva and Gabi, this work allows the emergency of traces and vestiges from everyday life. 

This ongoing writing started in March 2020. During the context of the coronavirus and with a colonialism-and-first-third-world covering the distance between us (Brazil and Germany), we found on an online shared text a way to connect, despite the time zone and distance. The principle is to write anything we want twice a day: Cau in the mornings from Berlin and Gabi at nights from Brasília. The intention is to put out thoughts, quotations, news, and perceptions of our days. Sometimes we notice that one of us wrote something and then erased, remained only traces in the Edition section. While we are writing, we are building a third organism. Although it is a virtual body, this material is a concrete connection between us. It became a place for an intimate register and a subjective and indirect conversation. Without expectations, this writing became part of our dailies as we continuing to update this document with no plans to stop updating it. 

Our desire to create something together was born from our similar word perspectives. The knowledge of each other works expressively corresponds in the way we deal with our creative process. It seems that somehow our artworks are dialoguing, or we might say that we are talking to each other thought our artworks?


*Link to the work*
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jJE9otcoK-TOtUD390DETFoTiaM3K-4L31vur5KU8zI/edit?usp=sharing

*Gabi*
https://www.artconnect.com/profile/gabi

*Cau*
https://www.artconnect.com/profile/cau-silva



Add

CAU SILVA

Opportunities

For Artists

ArtConnect

Support