achievement:
GARDEN OF LOVE
RACHEL ROSALEN
Rachel Rosalen
http://www.rachelrosalen.com.br/
http://www.rosalenmarchetti.wordpress.net
Lives and works between São Paulo and Denmark.
Rachel Rosalen's work focuses on the construction of multimedia spaces that use architectural concepts and electronic media in the construction of interactive installations, hybrid spaces and live cinema performances. He has held solo exhibitions at Yokohama Art Museum, Image Forum, Tomie Ohtake, El Alpeh, Japan Foundation and group shows 8 Hour Museum, Monkey Town, VIDEOFORMS, Center Pompidou, Espacio Fundación Telefónica Buenos Aires, Paço das Artes São Paulo, Laboratório Arte Alameda Mexico among others. Awarded by the Sergio Motta Award and by the PAC – Secretariat of Culture of São Paulo. Received 4 awards for ruralscapes. Represented by Light Cone, Paris. Co-held 4 editions of the rural.scapes artist residency program, taking 42 artists to São José do Barreiro, SP, to develop works and projects with the community. He is currently working in collaboration with Jan Ferslev on a project with wind harps and about Willian Blake.
GARDEN OF LOVE
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Garden of love is an installation about the cycle of life.
Life is short and fleeting. Living in Japan, I often noticed cemeteries (“ohaka”) in the middle of the city.
They are a “Ma”, an intermediate space, in time and space very intense and concentrated that is Tokyo. The presence of our bodies and the remains of bodies at rest in these spaces transforms the place into a liminal territory, a gateway to another dimension of life. It doesn't matter whether you believe life goes on afterward or not, but I experienced the “ohaka” as a place to show love and respect for ancestors.
We attribute our personal stories to memory and flesh under the ground. We realize the meaning of these relationships through individual and collective rituals. I choose an intimate language to communicate love: that thin, delicate line that connects our past, present, and future. “The Garden of Love” expresses the visceral and emotional spiral that weaves these different states of being.
This work is about the transitory nature of life and its absence. Humanity's communal invention - the city - keeps this plural space at its very center, even in Tokyo's extreme urban expression.
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2007_Sérgio Motta Art and Technology Award
http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/
2006_Videoforms: Manifestation Internationale d'Art Vidéo et Nouveaux Medium, Clermond-Ferrant, France
http://www.nat.fr/videoformes/FESTIVAL/2006/EXPOS/EXPOS_TOLERIE_06.html
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36 square m - 2 video projectors - 4 amp. speakers - salt - interface
potter: KYOKO TOKUMARU
pottery production in Tokyo: ROSALEN EXHIBITION COMMITTEE / YOKOHAMA ART MUSEUM (YOKOHAMA ARTS FOUNDATION), coordinated by HIROKO SEKI and MICHIKO OGURA for URBAN TRANSLOCAL> politics of love, YOKOHAMA ARTS MUSEUM, 2005.
co-production: VIDEOFORMAS: MANIFESTATION INTERNATIONALE D'ART VIDEO ET NOUVEAUX MEDIAS, CLERMOND-FERRANT, FRANCE.
special thanks: FUMIO NANJO, NAOYA HATAKEYAMA, HIROKO SEKI.
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Posted on Dec 5, 2007
Categories interactive installation, videos, works, _english
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