Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro (CCBB RJ) presents "Studio Drift - Vida em coisas" (from March 29 to May 22), the first exhibition in Brazil by Dutch duo Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta.
The artist duo DRIFT, formed in 2007, develops experiential sculptures, installations and performances to brings people, space and nature on to the same frequency, uniting audiences with experiences that inspire a reconnection to our planet. They explore the relationship between humans, nature and technology. In this exhibition, light is used as a medium to create the works.
According to Marcello Dantas, one of the exhibition’s curators with Alfons Hug,“there is a rationality behind their work, which is that there exists the possibility of nature and technology living together in harmony. Be it through the bionic world or be it through the concept of animism, in which everything - animals, natural phenomena and inanimate objects - has a spirit that connects them with everything else”.
Exhibited inthe CCBB RJ rotunda, the sculpture Shylight, created from differentlayers of silk, opens and closes elegantly, with a specific mechanism,reflecting the behavior of certain types of flowers that close at night as ameans of self-defense and conservation of their resources. The Fragile Future piece, meanwhile, aims to fuse nature and technology in a multidisciplinary light sculpture. Also forming part of the exhibition are the pieces Ego, Amplitude, Franchise Materialism, Coded Nature, Dandelight, among others.
To be able to construct these monumental pieces, the artists coordinated a multidisciplinary team of 64 people, with one studio in Amsterdam and another in New York.
This exhibition will head later to Banco do Brasil Cultural Center in São Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Brasília.
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