The Quarantine project is an initiative of the artists Lais Myrrha and Marilá Dardot, the curator Cristiana Tejo and the founder of the 55SP platform Julia Morelli and arises from the attentive reflection on the great challenges that the world faced due to the Covid-19 pandemic and more specifically of its impact in the field of visual arts. The crisis has reinforced the importance of cooperation between all and the minimum redistribution of material conditions as the only possibilities for overcoming it. Faced with this context of uncertainties and interruption of professional compromises, the group proposed a collective experiment of re-imagining an economic model for the arts.
Young, mid-career and well established artists, representing different regions of Brazil, genres and races were invited to create works according to quarantine conditions (at home, using available materials and tools) to be digitally sold, sent and printed or executed by the collector. Very much inspired by conceptual and mail art, the works vary from drawings, digital prints, sound art, videos, photos, and instructions, and they could not be visualized before the purchase. Working as a cooperative of Brazilian artists, all works are the same price and the final profit is shared equally among collaborators.