Florianópolis/SC – An abandoned house, full of traces of the past. This is the proposal for the exhibition A Arqueologista na Casa do Sonho, by artist Luanda de Oliveira, which will open on Thursday, September 21, at 7pm, at the Fundação Cultural BADESC, in Florianópolis. Entry is free and visits run until November 9th, Monday to Friday, from 1pm to 7pm.
The exhibition consists of 41 pieces, including sewing, drawings and texts, along with furniture and objects that belonged to the artist’s family. They are fragments of several houses already inhabited in Luanda, which make up the ambiance of the dream house. According to her, the exhibition is a fictional narrative in an expanded field, between visual arts and literature.
The main character of the story is the Archaeologist, an alter ego of the artist, who presents works that inhabit the real world and the fictional world. “This narrative is immersive, a kind of open book. The idea is that the game between pieces and gaps in the story allows the visitor to go through it with their own memories and fables, exploring through the space the clues left about characters who would have lived there”, explains Luanda.
Archeology as poetics is related to the possibility of constructing presents and futures through fragments of lost pasts. “Excavating and reconstructing memory is taking in your hands what remains, the pieces of lost ‘houses’, which can be affections, identities, relationships, spaces. The concept of home here is not just an architectural structure or dwelling, but a broader symbolic image, of our identities always in transformation”, highlights the artist.
The exhibition is the result of Luanda’s master’s research, carried out between 2020 and 2022. She says that the artistic process continued when thinking about the expography for the Foundation, which required a space with residential air. “I have been visiting exhibitions at the Foundation since the beginning of my first degree, and it always seemed to me that it would be beautiful to exhibit here. And because this project requires a space with a residential, domestic atmosphere, the Foundation would be perfect to accommodate it”, he says.
The exhibition was curated by the artist, curator, researcher and professor Sandra Correia Favero and by the art educator, independent curator and artist Marcello Carpes. They were advisors for Luanda’s master’s degree and have followed her work for years.
The BADESC Cultural Foundation is located at Rua Visconde de Ouro Preto, 216, in the center of Florianópolis. The exhibition The Archaeologist at Casa do Sonho is part of the Foundation’s 2023 Notice, which selected four projects to occupy the Casarão’s exhibition space.
About the artist
Born in Rio de Janeiro and living in Florianópolis since 2009, Luanda de Oliveira has a master’s and bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from the State University of Santa Catarina (UDESC). She is currently studying for a doctorate and a degree in Visual Arts at the same institution.
In 2016 and 2018 the artist participated in Entremostras at the BADESC Cultural Foundation. Along the way, he participated in several other exhibitions in cities in Santa Catarina and Paraná, including two solo exhibitions: Jardim nº 0, in 2014 at Memorial Meyer Filho, in Florianópolis and Arqueologia do Impossível, at Galeria Municipal de Arte Pedro Paulo Vecchietti, in 2019.
Service:
Opening of the exhibition The Archaeologist at Casa do Sonho, in Luanda de Oliveira
- Data: September 21st – Thursday
- Time: 19h
- Local: BADESC Cultural Foundation (Rua Visconde de Ouro Preto, 216 – Centro Florianópolis/SC)
- Visitation until November 9, 2023 – Monday to Friday, from 1pm to 7pm
- Prohibited free
