[DIS]MONTAGE
[DIs]montage is an interactive multimedia installation, composed of heterogeneous and anachronistic elements that promote different associations, creating new meanings and sensations.
From the confrontation between portraits of women who were tortured, murdered or disappeared during the Brazilian civil military dictatorship, a manuscript signed by one of these victims and the voices of the military denying their involvement with the crimes, we perceive the attempt to erase and distort facts by part of the state and institutions.
The installation provokes the public to shift their point of view towards the reality of these women, realizing the attempt to erase them. Present, past and future intersect, in a transforming aesthetic and political experience, which seeks to incorporate the dimension of the archive and memory in art.
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Forgetting is a constant threat. The story is told through information selected and interpreted according to the hegemonic interest, which elects the voices that will be heard and those that will be silenced. [Dis]mounting points to the sense of fragmenting what is usually seen as united and connecting what is usually seen as separate. It also refers to the idea that, in dictatorships, a war technique is used that seeks to strip the opponent of his humanity, that is, to disorient, disfigure, dismember, destroy, dismantle.
A document on the table. Material, touchable, withstood time. It is the only element that exists in space without the need for presence. It is a manuscript by Inês Etienne Romeu (1971), the only survivor of the so-called Casa da morte, a systematic torture center of the dictatorial military government in Brazil, in which she denounces the violations and threats she suffered. The visitor's approach is detected by a sensor, which triggers the reproduction of audio files of military personnel denying their involvement with the crimes; portraits of victims of the Brazilian dictatorship and launches a screen of smoke, generated by a machine, on which projected images can be seen. Both the audios and the pictures are in random sequence. When the visitor moves away, the smoke disappears. Women's voices and images disappear. Only the document remains.
The projection on the smoke brings several metaphors and operations. Static images begin to move and become three-dimensional, resembling holograms.
By appropriating institutional archives, revealing purposely hidden documents and recontextualizing them, the aim is to deconstruct their meaning, awaken different readings of the past and reflect on the present moment.
CREW
programming Rui D'Orey
light design Rodrigo Menck
support for research on dictatorship Maria Julia Andrade
VIDEO OF THE WORK
GALLERY
Photos by Rodrigo Menck.
PRESENTATION VIDEO
INVESTIGATION
Forgetting is a constant threat. The story is told through information selected and interpreted according to the hegemonic interest, which elects the voices that will be heard and those that will be silenced. [Dis]mounting points to the sense of fragmenting what is usually seen as united and connecting what is usually seen as separate. It also refers to the idea that, in dictatorships, a war technique is used that seeks to strip the opponent of his humanity, that is, to disorient, disfigure, dismember, destroy, dismantle.
A document on the table. Material, touchable, withstood time. It is the only element that exists in space without the need for presence. It is a manuscript by Inês Etienne Romeu (1971), the only survivor of the so-called Casa da morte, a systematic torture center of the dictatorial military government in Brazil, in which she denounces the violations and threats she suffered. The visitor's approach is detected by a sensor, which triggers the reproduction of audio files of military personnel denying their involvement with the crimes; portraits of victims of the Brazilian dictatorship and launches a screen of smoke, generated by a machine, on which projected images can be seen. Both the audios and the pictures are in random sequence. When the visitor moves away, the smoke disappears. Women's voices and images disappear. Only the document remains.
The projection on the smoke brings several metaphors and operations. Static images begin to move and become three-dimensional, resembling holograms.
By appropriating institutional archives, revealing purposely hidden documents and recontextualizing them, the aim is to deconstruct their meaning, awaken different readings of the past and reflect on the present moment.