{"uid":"wR0p6gsZRKL2rqUQ","type":"artist","tags":["instalation"],"group":"no","group_name":null,"project_title":"Rio Hamza","summary":"Rio Hamza is an installation about absence and imagination.\nThe underground \u201criver\u201d \u2013 the Rio Hamza, discovered in Brazil\u2019s Amazon Basin in 2011, is an invisible river. It has no legitimate status as a river, since it is merely an aquifer flowing some 4000m below ground. It is there, and yet not there; it lives as imagery more than geological reality.\nGeological layers and memory layers overlap one another in Rio Hamza. I return to the past and retrieve a painting (Mantra, 1998), bringing it back to the present. The large-scale oil on canvas depicts a waterfall-a vertical counterpart to Rio Hamza\u2019s horizontality-was installed at the altar of the Morumbi Chapel, in Sao Paulo. I (re)inject it into nature, into the very rainforest in which the real-life sign of the signified waterfall steadily gushes.\nExhibiting Mantra repeatedly in this rainforest was by no means accidental: the Amazon is a site of imagination, the stuff of lore and mystery, unfathomed, perhaps even unfathomable.The installation activates the imagination. There will be no Mantra, no rainforest, no waterfall. Everything is suggested, never shown. An immersive experience. This is the final layer of the work: the skin of the participant, the touch that remains on the surface.\nIn addition, Rio Hamza attempts to rekindle the aesthetics of Burle Marx, which was never completely executed. The important element of mobility while experiencing landscape on an enormous scale, extending architecture into nature.","space":"The suggested space is the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology - MuBE, which is located in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.\nThe total area covers 6935.91 m\u00b2, 3478.80 m\u00b2 is built up. The semi-underground building is signed by the architect, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, and landscaper Burle Marx. However, the landscaping project was never carried out in its entirely.\nExhibiting Rio Hamza at the MuBE, would create a dialog between the installation and the museum space, its history and construction process.","artists_proposal":null,"members":[],"lang":"es","status":"ok","video_link_password":"Floresta Video Sonora","video_link":"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/383726793","audio_link_password":null,"audio_link":null,"images_link_password":null,"images_link":null,"cellphone":null,"description":null,"estimated_budget":null,"complementary_info":null,"names":"Elizabeth","surname":"Lemos Dorazio","email":"dorazio.elizabeth@gmail.com","dni_type":"Otro","dni":"077.026.408-55","address":"Rua Oscar Freire, 465 7 andar ap 71","city":"S\u00e3o Paulo","nacionality":"Brasileira","country_id":"34","birthdate":"1957-08-17T03:00:00.000Z","birthdate_2":"1957-08-17T03:00:00.000Z","telephone":"55 11 3476-7852","web":null}