Group show, Incerteza Viva, 32a Bienal de S\u00e3o Paulo
Curated by Jochen Volz, Gabi Ngcobo, J\u00falia Rebou\u00e7as, Lars Bang Larsen and Sof\u00eda Olascoaga
September 7 \u2013 December 11, 2016
Installation photos by Edouard Fraipont, courtesy of Casa Tri\u00e2ngulo, S\u00e3o Paulo<\/p>\n
Las universidades desconocidas<\/em>, 2016 \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n\n\n \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n Work produced in collaboration with two studios in S\u00e3o Paulo: Alex and Valentina from Plat\u00f3, a shared office\/studio space located at Galeria Metropole in the center of the city, and Associa\u00e7\u00e3o das Bordadeiras do Jardim Concei\u00e7\u00e3o, a woman only cooperative from Osasco, in the outskirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n Las universidades desconocidas<\/em> [The Unknown Universities]
Cotton fabric, thread and hand embroidered acrylic yarn
30 curtains aprox. 295 x 160 cm<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/felipemujica.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/Felipe_Mujica_Bienal-1@EdouardFraipont-1235x1500.jpg\")
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1- The 30 curtains made for the 32nd Bienal de S\u00e3o Paulo were made by two different teams. Alex and Valentina from Plat\u00f3, a shared office\/studio space at Galeria Metropole in the center of the city, made 15. The other 15 curtains were made by a cooperative of women embroiders called Bodadeiras de Jardim Concei\u00e7\u00e3o, located at the western periphery of S\u00e3o Paulo.
2- The Unknown University is the title of a book of poems by Roberto Bola\u00f1o. I am interested in borrowing it mainly because of its ambiguity. It proposes something, a moment, an almost abstract place, to which we can all relate to, either by a direct and nostalgic connection or by the lack of this connection, which can also be nostalgic. Clashing with this the unknown is proposed, what we cannot control or direct. It\u2019s a constant push and pull, between our educational memories and what lies ahead, what can still happen, our self-construction.
3- The Unknown University tells us about autonomy, about how one is ultimately its own best guide. Bola\u00f1o remarks: \u201cI believe that in the formation of every writer an unknown university guides his steps, which obviously, has no fixed location, it is a mobile university, but common to all\u201c.
4- My Unknown University in S\u00e3o Paulo then is my travels between the center and the periphery. It is to build the work in a horizontal dialogue with the fabricators. It\u2019s to listen to live music, sometimes two simultaneous bands, in the small plaza at Galeria Metr\u00f3pole. It\u2019s to try to learn how to travel by train and bus to Jardim Concei\u00e7\u00e3o, like everyone else does. It\u2019s to eat together. It\u2019s to improve my portu\u00f1ol<\/em> to the degree of learning Portuguese.
5- The public also carries infinite unknown universities, which could be projected onto the work. The curtains are manipulable, the public can touch them and move them\u2026 play with them, play with the multiple, almost inexhaustible, formal combinations. In itself, this action is an act of learning, basic yet it\u2019s there, it\u2019s an opportunity. The infinite unknown universities then will be added to each curtain and their configurations. After 3 months they will possibly make them look used and dirty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n