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Collision Collusion is a project that begins with a series of paintings featuring the two words from the title alongside the word “illusion.” Together, they create a kind of cacophony and explore, both in Portuguese and English, the growing tension in the political climate in recent years, not only in Brazil and the United States but also, more recently, in Europe and the Middle East. The use of words as a central element of the work presents important issues for the contemporary world, such as the interpretation of text and problems of communication.




Collision Collusion Collision

Serigraphy
60 x 60 cm (approx.)
23.6 x 23.6 in (approx.)

Lurixs Gallery
Rio de Janeiro, 2018
“Collision Collusion Collision” is a development of what first started as a series of paintings containing the two words from the title plus the word “illusion.” They explore in both Portuguese and English - the current underlining message of our political climate, the inner dynamics of reading and interpreting a text, the legacy of Brazil’s Concrete Poetry, and the present use of text in painting.





Collision Collusion Collision

Vídeo

This Typography Animation expands the paintings’ interest on text towards a more fragmented realm of media platforms and a more ambitious mission. To use Times Square as the support to relate and comment on the cacophony and over-paced nature of news. Where all messaging seems to converge and nothing stands out, where the same conflict-oriented cycle seems to take a different shape every day, while reinforcing the same views. Where the promise to inform and convince had only taken us to a more polarized state.

Tweet, pundit, pivot, flip, double down, fact check, corroborate, distort, overturn, revision, alter, depose, rally, donate, grandstand, mobilize, empower, obstruct, energize, polarize, gerrymander, reelect, hate, impeach, oversaturate, overwhelm, denounce, doubt, believe, normalize, spin, stream, hack, vote...

Collision, collusion, collision, collusion, collision, collusion, collision, collusion, collision, collusion, collision…






Collision Collusion Collision

Video installation

Time Square, Midnight Moment (proposal rendering)
New York, October 2018






Collision Collusion Collision

Video installation

Hollywood Art and Culture Centre
Miami, 2020