Estados do Amor | States of Love2007-2008
video-installation (cloth, table, chairs, candle, video projector, dvd player)
300x300x250cm
Pensar as relações humanas, como elas se formam e desenvolvem, é o que propus ao convidar pessoas de diversas áreas para discutir o amor em jantares que aconteceram entre quatro paredes de tecido semi-transparente. O limite entre as esferas pública e privada é a problemática subjacente à discussão proposta, que busca entender o amor à luz das quatro palavras do grego clássico: storge é o amor das afinidades, familia; philia das amizades; eros do erotimo e ágape da espiritualidade. O resultado dos jantares é apresentado em um vídeo no qual construo o meu próprio discurso sobre o amor a partir das conversas entre os participantes.
How human relationships are formed and develop? That is what I tried to answer in a series of dinners to which people from different areas were invited and that took place inside four semi-transparent walls (made out of cloth). The limit between the public and the private spheres and what we understand by ‘love’, based in the four different ancient Greek words: storge – affinities/familial love; philia – friendship love; eros – sexual/erotic love and agape – sritual love, were the departing point. The result is a video in which I construed my own speech on the subject love based in the participant's conversations.
How human relationships are formed and develop? That is what I tried to answer in a series of dinners to which people from different areas were invited and that took place inside four semi-transparent walls (made out of cloth). The limit between the public and the private spheres and what we understand by ‘love’, based in the four different ancient Greek words: storge – affinities/familial love; philia – friendship love; eros – sexual/erotic love and agape – sritual love, were the departing point. The result is a video in which I construed my own speech on the subject love based in the participant's conversations.