CAMADAS

narratividades visuais da violência

Casa da Cultura da América Latina
Universidade de Brasília
2018

This first exhibition by Lâmina collective – formed by Gabriela de Laurentiis and João Mascaro – gathers objects associated with imaging technologies that are combined with photos, producing a photographic installation.

The images were produced in various manifestations that occurred in the country since 2013, focusing not only the impetuous performance of the police, but even the use of photography, on her part, for the repression of demonstrators.

In view of the various records of these episodes diffused to exhaustion, the Lâmina proposes this somber and cinematic, kind of weird subversive experimental laboratory on which photography is investigated as a control instrument. the spectator enters this uncomfortable environment where will find a place of resignification these images, apart from the saturation experienced via media and press – contributes to both the b&w contrast and of the colors and the superposition of champions, the which generates a clouding, an imprecision of the details.

At the same time, this created space has a cabinet study atmosphere, in this case, the study about an urban conflict situation that resembled a war. In other words, the “Camadas” (Layers) installation presents a clipping of these episodes from recent history as if they already were – and really are – a subject for analysis and search.

Susan Sontag, an essayist attentive to so many layers of stories and symbolisms of photography, wrote that: “Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism". In this sense, photographs of the demonstrations already constitute a topos contemporary, that's why Lâmina proposes structures to three-dimensionalize the images, turning them into objects specific. It is necessary to look at them again

Ana Avelar
2018