On Friday, April 12, at 7:00 PM, the Museu da Cidade (MUCI) – Fundição Lidgerwood will host the opening of O Peso da Terra (The Weight of the Earth), the first solo exhibition by architect and visual artist Alexandre Silveira. The exhibition brings together a selection of works across various media from the past decade of the artist's visual arts practice, including several previously unseen pieces, such as the video O Peso da Terra, filmed during an artist residency at Chão SLZ in São Luís, Maranhão, in 2015.
The artist's work converges on the search for an exit from the cycle of construction and ruin in nature and culture. It questions the spaces these truths inhabit, challenging the rules, beliefs, canons, and daily creative rituals in an attempt to weave new possibilities for escape—efforts that often fail, creating and recreating a perpetual motion that prevents any exit or conclusion. The completion of the video and the exhibition itself were supported by the Secretariat of Culture and the FICC (Cultural Investment Fund of Campinas) 2015/2016, which was finalized in 2018/2019 following a two-year hiatus in the call for proposals and delays in funding disbursement.
Alexandre Silveira: O Peso da Terra
Opening: Friday, April 12, 2019, at 7:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: April 12 – May 30, 2019
Tuesday to Friday, 2:00 PM – 8:00 PM; Saturday, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Museu da Cidade – MUCI (Fundição Lidgerwood)
Avenida Andrade Neves, 33 – Centro – Tel.: (19) 3231-3387 – Campinas, SP
Curators: Samantha Moreira and Thaís Rivitti
Executive Producer: Alexandre Silveira
Assistant Executive Producer and Production Assistant: Camilla Torres
Design and Visual Communication: Kauê Garcia
Installation: Camilla Torres, Alexandre Silveira, Anderson Kaltner, Frederico Cruz, Felipe Amorim (Pipoca), Kauê Garcia, Mathias Reis, João Paulo Caçador (Jão), Thiago Bortolozzo
Audio Technician: Guilherme Spagiari
Lighting: Alexandre Silveira and Camilla Torres
