Rochelle Costi participates in awarded show in Belo Horizonte

Rochelle Costi participates in the exhibition da Quando o tempo aperta [When the time tightens], which awarded Raphael Fonseca the CNI SESI SENAI Marcantonio Vilaça Prize of Plastic Arts for Emerging Curators. The group show is based in the in the Riposatevi project, developed by Lucio Costa for the XIII Millan Triennial, in 1964, which presented, in an environment field with hammocks and that invited people to rest, three large photos of Brasília, “as a suggestion that this same people that pass the ‘free time’ on the hammock, when the ‘time tightens’ build in only three years, in the desert, a Capital”. 

Alongside names like Hélio Oiticica, Pierre Verger, André Komatsu, Marcelo Cidade and Lais Myrrha, Rochelle Costi participates in the show with six photos from the series Quartos - São Paulo, originally presented at XXIV São Paulo Biennial, in 1998. With these works, the artist investigates urban intimacy through its resting spaces, using photography as an aesthetical exercise as much as a medium for anthropological research, in a manner that the vestiges left by the absent bodies reveal meaningful and unexpected details about the humans who inhabit the city.

The exhibition takes place at the Palácio das Artes of the Fundação Clóvis Salgado, in Belo Horizonte, from January 14 to March a 20, 2016. Afterwards, it follows to the Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães (MAMAM), in Recife, where it can be visited from April 14 to June 12, 2016.