RESEARCH | INSTALLATION

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TITLE: “SHORT SIGHT”

YEAR: 2024 

MATERIAL USED: METAL, NET, EUCALYPTUS, PINES, STRAW AND FIRE.

TECHNIQUES: COLLECTING, DRYING AND WELDING.

DIMENSIONS: 100 X 40 X 200 CM

EXHIBITION:  COLLECTIVE WORK PRESENTATION - RURAL CONTEMPORÂNEA, SPAIN

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"SHORT SIGHT" IS A COLLECTIVE WORK MADE BY ANA AMARANTE, CAMILA ALMEIDA, NEFELI THEMELI, AND RAFAEL RAPOSO PIRES IN THE CONTEXT OF RURAL LIVING. IT EXPANDS ON THE EXPERIENCE ITSELF, WHERE LIVING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, CLOSE TO THE NATIONAL PARK OF FRAGAS DO EUME, IN MONFERO (CORUÑA), IMPOSES BOTH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE WAYS WE INTERACT WITH NATURE. BY HAVING MOIRA, ROBIN, AND THEIR CHILDREN AS HOSTS AND GUIDES THROUGHOUT OUR STAY, IT WAS UNDERSTOOD THAT THE LANDSCAPE OF MONFERO WORKS WITH BORDERS TO WHAT CAN BE CALLED “WILDERNESS”, AND ESTABLISHES THAT SEPARATION SO CLEARLY THROUGH A BIOINVASION OF PLANTATIONS OF EUCALYPTUS. WHILE MANY HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT THE IDEA OF THE POSTNATURAL, IT WAS CLEAR THAT THIS TRANSGENIC LANDSCAPE WOULD INTERFERE NOT ONLY WITH FAUNA AND ECOSYSTEMS, BUT ALSO WITH THE MEMORIES OF THE FEW LOCALS WHO REMINISCE ABOUT A TIME WHEN AGRICULTURE, ESPECIALLY CORN, AND THE HÓRREOS THAT LASTED THROUGH TIME, WERE WAYS OF LIVING OFF THE LAND, WITHOUT OVERPOWERING THE DIVERSITY ARROUND, MAINTAINING AN OPEN VIEW OF THE MOUNTAINS AND NEIGHBORS. WHAT EMERGED FROM THE EXPERIENCE WAS A PROCESSION OF PAST TRADITIONS, WHERE A SKELETON MADE OF IRON SUPPORTED A FLAMING EUCALYPTUS STRUCTURE THAT REVEALED, AS IT BURNED, A FORGOTTEN MOUNTAIN. WHAT LINGERS FROM OUR TIME IN MONFERO IS A CLOSER LOOK AT WHAT IS CONSIDERED SURVIVAL AND A DEEPER GRASP OF ARTISTIC ENDEAVORS WITHIN A RURAL SETTING.