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SOLSTÍCIO /5:00/2004
solstice: either of the two times of the year at which the sun is
furtherst North or South of the equator.
This video shifts between images of a domestic interior, with sun
light coming in through the windows and moving on the walls, and
images from a television screen. The images of the screen show the
scanning lines moving from side to side in the screen, making visible
the electromagnetic process of the electrons activating its phosphorous
surface. The television shows images from a home made video of a
family anniversary in an ambient which is the same domestic interior
that appears in the video with the sun light.
Both sequences were edited so their scenes become mixed. The movement
of the sun rays and the scanning lines are put in the same velocity.
“Solstício” (Solstice) is an attempt to create
a parallel between the sun light, which gives the possibility of
seeing all things and the luminosity of the television screen generated
by its own functioning.
MARIANA MANHÃES Niterói, RJ / Brazil 1977
Solo exhibitions: “Criado-Mudo” in SESC (Niterói,
2004) and “Coleção de Eternidades” Galeria
ACBEU (Salvador, 2003)
Selected group exhibitions: “Projectiles d’Art Contemporain”
at Espace Brésil / National Art Foundation - Year of Brazil
in France (Paris, 2005); “Espaços de Contato”
at Parque Lage School of Visual Arts (Rio, 2005); “Projéteis
de Arte Contemporânea” at National Art Foundation (Rio,
2004); “30 Years of Video Art” at Parque Lage (Rio,
2004); “Posição 2004” at Parque Lage (Rio,
2004); group exhibition at Castelinho do Flamengo (Rio, 2004); group
exhibition at Centro Cultural Candido Mendes (Rio, 2004); “PUSH”
(Rio, 2004) e “Novíssimos” at Galeria IBEU Copacabana
(Rio, 2003). As part of the workshop “Art, Memory and Testimony”
performed the public interference “Meeting Point” at
Tate Modern (Londres, 2003).
Works in collections: Centro Cultural Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro
and Galeria ACBEU, Salvador.
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