Condo São Paulo 2019

Condo São Paulo 2019, 2019

Curator: Francisco Salas

Galeria PM8

Rúa Pablo Morillo, 8, 36201 Vigo, Pontevedra, Espanha

+34 986 43 43 33

Condo São Paulo 2019

Galeria PM8, Spain

in Sé Galeria, Brazil

 

After a successful first edition, held in 2018, the Condo project returns to São Paulo this time featuring 11 international galleries in 9 different São Paulo venues. Condo is a large-scale collaborative exhibition between international galleries. Host galleries share their spaces with visiting galleries - either by co-curating an exhibition or by dividing their spaces. The initiative encourages debate and re-evaluation of existing exhibition models, pooling resources to propose a more conducive environment for galleries to exhibit new formats in international exchanges.
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After an intense week of exchanges with the privilege of the presence of artists and art dealers, we are pleased to invite you all to share our spaces with Spain's Pm8 galleries featuring Gabriel Borba Filho and Proyectos Ultravioleta from Guatemala. , with artist Jorge de León accompanied by invited Palestinian artists, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme. The Sé presents unpublished works by Gustavo Speridião.
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 Gabriel Borba, for this project, exhibits a series of vintage photographs, collages and videos from the 1970s and two paintings from 1968 and 1969 respectively. With a little known historical work in Brazil, Gabriel Borba began his video experiments in the early 1970s with Walter Zanini in the framework of the works of MAC USP. He also worked as an assistant to philosopher Vilém Flusser and is one of the founders of the General Cooperative for Art Subjects in 1974 and also of the Sao Paulo Plastic Artists Cooperative in 1978.
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Conjunto da Obra

Corpo che cade

Imagens de Urgência (Urgency Images)

O Vento Uiva, ouça, 2020

video performance online

Works, Series and Collections: O Vento Uiva, ouça (The Wind Howls, listen)

Expositions: Flusser 100th anniversary

O Vento Uiva, ouça

The Wind Howl, listen


My commentary

To celebrate Flusser's 100th anniversary at an online event, I chose a simple video based on the deep impression left by an episode of my experience as his assistant. I had the collaboration of Monai de Paula Antunes, art researcher, collaborator of Vilém Flusser Archiv, Berlin, and it was all done by cell phone resources, overcoming the distances that separated us.
The ensemble to which I gave the title O Vento Uiva, ouça (The Wind Howl, listen), is composed of Declaration; Poetic manifestation over read Text and Finale.

Gabriel Borba, 2020

 

Declaration

I worked with Flusser for a few years. I was his assistant. At the time he used to ask me to read aloud what he was writing. On one occasion, he asked me to read the article Ventos –Winds- which is in the book Natural: Mind. But he complained that I was reading too fast. I resumed slowly and concentrated. I immersed myself in the text, felt the wind in its variants and, at a certain point, a few lines touched me. I tried hard not to be noticed. One more page to the end, I read the last quote “this is all the wisdom I can reap: I came like water, and like Wind I go”. I lowered the book, raised my eye and realized that something was changed

 

Text under Poetic manifestation

“... the wind howls, that is, it speaks. So it’s not a thing. Things don't speak. The wind is not a thing; it is someone to whom I must respond, it is a you who calls me to be me. Because it is a you, the wind cannot be imagined, conceived, known and manipulated. It must be heard, received, reconized and followed. When wind is imagined, conceived, known and manipulated, as it is in technique and theory, it stops being wind and becomes air movement, it is “objectified”. And the wind is not an object: it is my Other. It is not; exists. That is why Buber says: “God is not: I believe in Him”. And Angelus Silesius ”Ich weis dass ohne mich Gott nicht ein Nu kann leben”  = I know that without me God cannot live even an instant. The wind is wind for me, if I allow it to be wind. And if I don't allow it, it will be air movement, not wind. If it doesn't allow to be wind, it will be aerodynamics problem partially solved. But if I allow it to be wind, it will be enigma. If I don't allow it to be wind, it will lose its voice, and it will become vibration in manipulable decibels.  It will be mute. But now, on this night that surrounds my house with desperate fury, the wind speaks. Because I am willing to listen to it. That is why the prayer that says “Chemá Israel, JHVH elohenu JHVH ekhád” (listen, fighter for God, JHVH is our God, JHVH is one), is a prayer, not an indicative statement. It says: “listen!”. The wind that surrounds my house with desperate fury indicates nothing, it reigns. If I allow it. That is its message. Despite all the interference, I still receive it on nights like this

 

Finale

"and this is all the wisdom I can reap: I came like water and like wind I go"