João Castilho "Disruption"
1500 Gallery
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Vacant Lot (Lote Vago) is a series of photographs depicting the silhouettes of unemployed men hanging around a vacant lot on the outskirts of Bamako, Mali. The subjects disrupt space and time in search of a way to defeat the boredom and emptiness that make up their lives. The subjects are directed by the photographer and are pictured in front of a wall. The way they were photographed nullifies any possibility of recognition. They are subjects without identity, and therefore, with no story.
The series Spice (Tempero) depicts interventions with spices (paprika and saffron) in Bolivia’s Uyuni Salt Flats. There is an interplay between materials: salt, pepper and saffron. But also with art history, as the work makes reference to land art (interventions in landscape) and painting (the activation of empty, white space by the introduction of pictorial elements, red and yellow). The interference color on white ends up creating a certain discontinuity in the landscape and disruption of order.
There will also be the launch of the book Scopic Drive (Pulsão Escópica). Scopic drive is a concept that was addressed by psychoanalysist Sigmund Freud, despite not having been explicitly identified by him as such. Jacques Lacan is responsible for coining the term itself, in view of discussing the notion of “satisfaction” inherent to the act of looking. From this psychoanalytic concept, Castilho created a series of photographs. The images of this essay, generated by webcams and captured directly from Castilho’s computer screen, discuss scenes of voyeurism and exhibitionism.
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Schedule
from October 03, 2012 to October 27, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-10-03 from 18:00 to 20:00