Inventário das Pequenas Mortes (Sopro), 2000
Rivane Neuenschwander & Cao Guimarães
Still: Courtesy the artists
Still: Courtesy the artists
Still: Courtesy the artistsy
Still: Courtesy the artists
Still: Courtesy the artists
Collection
Single-channel video installation, b/w, silent
5 min
Inventário das Pequenas Mortes (Sopro) translated Inventory of Small Deaths (Blow) shows a soap bubble blown across the Brazilian landscape. One sees slightly distorted palm trees and shimmering clouds through the transparent membrane. The bubble acts both as a lens that mutates the visual observations and as a point of orientation for the viewer in the silhouetted surroundings. It is an extremely vulnerable creature that carries the world within itself and also on its changing surface. Occasionally it divides and reconstitutes itself like an amoeba that is forever changing its shape but still remaining essentially the same. The ephemeral, unstable object is nevertheless remarkable for its resilience, and its ability to endlessly transform itself. Occasionally the film cuts to another offstage in the bubble's trajectory, or is it another bubble, another small death?
Rivane Neuenschwander: *1967 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil | Living and working in London, United Kingdom and Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Cao Guimaraes: *1965 in Minas Gerais, Brazil | Living and working in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
5 min
Inventário das Pequenas Mortes (Sopro) translated Inventory of Small Deaths (Blow) shows a soap bubble blown across the Brazilian landscape. One sees slightly distorted palm trees and shimmering clouds through the transparent membrane. The bubble acts both as a lens that mutates the visual observations and as a point of orientation for the viewer in the silhouetted surroundings. It is an extremely vulnerable creature that carries the world within itself and also on its changing surface. Occasionally it divides and reconstitutes itself like an amoeba that is forever changing its shape but still remaining essentially the same. The ephemeral, unstable object is nevertheless remarkable for its resilience, and its ability to endlessly transform itself. Occasionally the film cuts to another offstage in the bubble's trajectory, or is it another bubble, another small death?
Rivane Neuenschwander: *1967 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil | Living and working in London, United Kingdom and Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Cao Guimaraes: *1965 in Minas Gerais, Brazil | Living and working in Belo Horizonte, Brazil