© Emilio de Azevedo – Rondônia (How I Fell in Love with a Line)

Name: © Emilio de Azevedo - Rondônia (How I Fell in Love with a Line)
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Visual artist and photographer, my work is based on research aimed at establishing the cultural and historical foundations of the ecological crisis that faces our modernity. Started at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Photographie (Arles) and pursued with the support of different European art institutions (such as Musée du quai Branly (Paris), Wiels Center for Contemporary Art (Brussels) and the FOMU (Antwerp), the art and research project that I’m currently leading focuses on the civilization process that took place in the Brazilian Amazon at the turn of the 20th century.

emilio.azevedo@etu.ensp-arles.fr

@emilio.azv

Category: Onboards Biennale 2023

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My project Rondônia (how I fell in love with a line) explores the ecological, social and spiritual mutations that Amazonia underwent. And even if it is limited to a specific period and a geographical space, the history of this transformation presents a considerable interest to comprehend the philosophical and phantasmatic structures which underlie and justify the spirit of discovery, the ideal of conquest and permanent domination proper to the Western modernity.

At the intersection of official history, erased memory and personal narrative, my work explores, through poetic and creative means, the ecological, social and spiritual mutations that this territory underwent.

And even if it is limited to a specific period and a geographical space, the history of this transformation presents a considerable interest to comprehend the philosophical and phantasmatic structures which underlie and justify the spirit of discovery, the ideal of conquest and permanent domination proper to the Western modernity.

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