— too bold, too big, to far: Unrealized artworks become visible. Artists from all over connect.
While mobility is restricted, borders and distances are clearly perceptible and existential uncertainties
are omnipresent, more artistic works than ever remain in the state of planning. Whether it fails due to
lack of time, space or money or accompanies your artistic work for years as bold dream — we are looking
for your projects, which have not (yet) made it beyond their state as an idea, concept, draft or prototype.
With this exhibition we want to open up a space and visibility in terms of concepts, sketches, drafts, plans
and photographs. These papers will be presented at the art space BLECH. in Halle, Germany.
At the same time, despite current challenges and immobility, this format allows to present
and bring international artists together. Since many things cannot take place on location and in person,
there will be an online programm additional to the exhibtion. For an exchange and encounters, the
participating artists and their work will be presented and discussed on a digital platform.
— too bold, too big, to far: Unrealized artworks become visible. Artists from all over connect.
While mobility is restricted, borders and distances are clearly perceptible and existential uncertainties
are omnipresent, more artistic works than ever remain in the state of planning. Whether it fails due to
lack of time, space or money or accompanies your artistic work for years as bold dream — we are looking
for your projects, which have not (yet) made it beyond their state as an idea, concept, draft or prototype.
With this exhibition we want to open up a space and visibility in terms of concepts, sketches, drafts, plans
and photographs. These papers will be presented at the art space BLECH. in Halle, Germany.
At the same time, despite current challenges and immobility, this format allows to present
and bring international artists together. Since many things cannot take place on location and in person,
there will be an online programm additional to the exhibtion. For an exchange and encounters, the
participating artists and their work will be presented and discussed on a digital platform.
Benedito ferreira
ABOUT
Benedito Ferreira lives and works between Goiânia and Rio de Janeiro. PhD student in Arts at the State University of Rio de Janeiro with research focusing on his own artistic processes, montages and narratives. Works with film, objects, installation and photography, without establishing a hierarchy between media. He is currently developing the Despertáculo project, whose boundary between document and fiction is blurred by using as a premise letters he writes for the poet Pio Vargas and photographer Samuel Costa, Brazilian artists who had an early death.
STATEMENT
My work is interested in encounters with the Other, be it through the appropriation of objects or the erasure of the ideas of "document" and "fiction". The time for debugging images and the possibility of exercising a kind of control over them are usually the guidelines I adopt. By proposing crossed narratives, my objective is to expand the possibilities of relating to images that deal with the splendor of the banal, which is sometimes generous, sometimes invasive. Thus, I am interested in the recognition of my production from the inside out, in order to ascertain the power of the gesture.
We asked ...
What role do unrealized projects play in your artistic practice?
I work with the montage and ubiquitous narrative. I believe one image combined with another can multiply meanings. I believe art is a way of taking a stand against time and that this implies a constant play with time. Some of my works end up paralyzed and I resume them as I feel the progression of time, that is, I play with time, with an idea of dematerialization of the object. Art also as an idea.
What makes unrealized projects and works special to you?
I believe failure, utopia or the unrealizable to be fundamental to artistic practice. I think of these approaches as a strategy to subvert the authority of the real, to remain vigilant and give new visibilities to a certain theme. When something or I myself stop a work, I feel that the project can be resumed at another time, another opportunity. The interruption is capable of giving a new lease of life, a survival.
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