Chão comum
2012
Chão comum (2012), video still
"Usually, my work acts to release a certain potential already present in things and situations. In this sense, my propositions are appropriated and transformed by the context. Somewhere in this process, the subject/object's boundaries are blurred and the agency of things or systems becomes explicit. Chão comum (Common Ground) uses this mechanism.
The work is a small action in a system of production and circulation of images that is absorbed by another system. Through a shift of focus and a repetition of images of a scientific achievement, it becomes an allegory of failure and absence of an ideological mindset.
In which way is a common ground a matter of concern within a society (un)structured by proprietary gains and social losses?"
Tiago Romagnani Silveira in a statement to PLATFORM:VB (October 2013)
Chão comum (2012) | Tiago Romagnani Silveira
Video | Public domain video, 8’22”, no sound, color, 16 : 9, loop
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