translucent canvas printing, fluorescent lamp
each image: 205 x 550 cm
Museum:observatory is a project that brings together three interventions in the architectural space of Museu da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, MG. This set of works promotes relations between the landscape and the museum spaces, giving the architecture a permeability that transforms it into an observation point.
In the auditorium, Invisible Visible consists of a set of eight back-light photographs. Each pair, upper and lower photos, is formed by frontal and simultaneous photographs - one taken from the roof of the auditorium and another from a point on the other side of the lake. Each pair of images shows an instant captured in two directions. Each image of the pair complements the other in the sense of revealing its origin point and its place in the landscape.
“With images that are identical to the landscape seen outside, powerful backlights reproduce views of this landscape coinciding with the outdoors. But the images appear in pairs, a series of four pairs - the view seen from inside and the double of what is seen on the other side of the lake, captured at the same time. This image partnership gives volume, depth, and temporariness to the landscape representation. The portrayed moment of the dynamics of the perceiving act builds an emptiness where the eyes wander, where the one who sees finds what isn’t seen, on a magnetic hiatus lost somewhere along the itinerary of the photographers who took part in the production of this work, on September 15th 2011.” (Renata Marquez)
“There starts a game of image analysis and search, just like on Google Earth Street View; the photographers records from their simultaneous observation points can be discovered, just a few minutes later, due to the images’ printing scale; and the flat image, in pairs, has a spatial complexity that expands it and, because of the improbable perspectives, makes it more visible than the landscape that could be seen through those windows, before and since the beginning, decades ago.” (R. M.)
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