Gnashing of teeth, banging of pans
Gnashing of teeth, banging of pans 2020
Video - performance
Matheus da Rocha Montanari
The work is a video call produced in times of social isolation. During the quarantine period, the city’s landscape changed radically. During the day, the silence in a metropolis like São Paulo (Brazil) is so astonishing that we can hear even the grinding of our anxious and uncertain teeth. During the night, a symphony of pots (people protesting against Bolsonaro’s government by making noise with pots and pans) emerges from the windows of the buildings. In a period when all the meetings become remote, the artist makes a video call with himself and the street in front of his house, confronting the images of the empty street, the sound of the protest in the windows, the sound of teeth tinkling in the pot and the interference noise that the proximity of these electronic devices causes
Work selected for the Quarantine residency, a partnership between:
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Celu Studio, UK
Istanbul Artist Residency, Turkey
Nafasi Art Space, Tanzania
Bilgili Holding, Turkey
Redbase Foundation, Indonesia
ArtBureau of Investigation, China
Youth Leader Fund, China
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