Audiovisual experiments on display at the Vale Maranhão Cultural Center

07 February to 11 March 2023

The use of different audiovisual resources to question perspectives on space and time is the highlight of the exhibition Occupy CCVM — Giro e Fluxus do Mundo, which will open to the public on Tuesday, February 7, at 15:00, at the Vale Maranhão Cultural Center, with works by visual artists Wayner Tristan and Diego Ramos.

Giro, by Wayner Tristan, proposes a sense of ecstasy caused by several rotating figures. The selected images – taken from the internet – refer to popular dances from Brazil and other countries, as well as rituals where the turnaround among the participants predominates. The cut used by the artist highlights only the characteristic of the movement, renouncing the space-time character, resulting in a kind of nervous tic that communicates with the acceleration and repetition so popular in contemporary society.

Diego Ramos presents Fluxus do Mundo, an installation that integrates the languages of audiovisual and photography in an immersive environment that offers a subtle view of nature. The work is divided into two parts: in the first, a series of five videos, shown in looping side by side, presents sheets animated by the cinemography technique. The gentle movement gives the feeling of witnessing the breathing of plants. In the second phase of the installation, a video of a branch surrounded by the sea horizon refers to the slow flow of the Earth, establishing a macro and micro relationship between the movement of leaves and the ocean. The sound of the waters is part of the space, inviting the public to enter an environment permeated by introspection and organicity.

Wayner Tristan is an artist, filmmaker, researcher, PhD in Visual Arts and author of the books Urbanidades: Atributions of Public Art in the Construction of the View in Contemporary Megalopolises and Eternity of the Moment: Gifs, Loopings, and Timeless Technical Image. Diego Ramos is a visual artist and historian, based in São Paulo, with audiovisual research focusing on experimental cinema, video art, and cultural heritage.

The works were selected in the 2022 edition of the Ocupa CCVM public notice, which received proposals aimed at researching the audiovisual sector in its breadth of creation, relating it to other artistic languages. The exhibition will run until March 11th. Vale Maranhão Cultural Center is located on Rua Direita, 149, Historic Center of São Luís.