This neon sign was appropriate from a nightclub of the same name that existed on Copacabana beach. Today, in its place, there is a museum that was never opened.

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Small flashlights were lit under loose parquet floor.

Minefield

A site specific work created from the accumulation of almost all the chandeliers of the house lowered, whose support chains are tangled. 

Lucidity

Paquetá's bucolic and touristic identity is evidenced in Leo Ayres's proposal, of an ephemeral nature, in which 25 silver letter-shaped helium balloons were distributed in the waters of Guanabara Bay, on São Roque beach. In "O Caos é uma Ordem por Decifrar"(Chaos is an order to be deciphered), a phrase extracted from the book "The Double", by Portuguese author José Saramago, the artist's action spreading the letters and modifying the landscape transformed the atmosphere of the place during the opening of the event. Amid fishermen's boats, with the typical Paquetá stones and the silhouette of the Serra dos Órgãos in the background, the rhythm of the letters scattered in different points and at different heights, mirroring the colors and shapes of their surroundings, contributed to establish a new contemplative look for the place. In the staggering rhythm of the balloons, any attempt to form words - or even a sentence - immediately made clear the impossibility of achieving the goal and the sensation of failure of the viewer, without, however, a feeling of frustration prevailing in this process. On the contrary, the action fueled the desire to register, based on photography and video, generating countless images that were soon shared on social networks, reinforcing and expanding the eminently participatory character of the proposal. In the following weeks the work persisted in the forms of video and postcard, as a printed image that could be shared and taken home, constituting yet another representation that circulates and endorses the imaginary about the island. 


Ivair Reinaldim
2016

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