The Beach and the Time Installation / gru.a

The Beach and the Time Installation / gru.a - Image 2 of 29The Beach and the Time Installation / gru.a - Exterior PhotographyThe Beach and the Time Installation / gru.a - Exterior Photography, CoastThe Beach and the Time Installation / gru.a - Image 5 of 29The Beach and the Time Installation / gru.a - More Images+ 24

Copacabana, Brazil
  • Autor: Pedro Varella
  • Performance: Julie Desprairies
  • Project Development: gru.a (grupo de arquitetos) - Caio Calafate; André Cavendish, Júlia Carreiro and Isadora Tebaldi
  • Structural Consulting: Rodrigo Affonso
  • Realization: TEMPO_FESTIVAL and Instituto Francês do Brasil
  • Sponsorship: Oi - Secretaria de Estado de Cultura do Rio de Janeiro – Governo do Rio de Janeiro – Lei Estadual de Incentivo à Cultura
  • Support: Secretaria Municipal de Cultura – Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro
  • City: Copacabana
  • Country: Brazil
More SpecsLess Specs
The Beach and the Time Installation / gru.a - Exterior Photography, Coast
© Rafael Salim

"The beach is the place of leisure, work, meetings, sexuality, repression, sleeping, playing, the place the sun and much more. A territory of instability, transformation, and uncertainty. Its thin sand soil forms and deforms to the taste of time and according to desires. One person or several? The crossing of footprints confuses ourselves, indicates multiple possibilities, hypotheses that occupy the imaginary and defy the possibility of prediction. As the day goes on, so do the wind and the tide so that, at dawn, the territory becomes available again, always open to what will come. The beach makes you think about time, about a way of being and not being ".

The Beach and the Time Installation / gru.a - Image 28 of 29
Plan and Section
The Beach and the Time Installation / gru.a - Exterior Photography, Coast
© Rafael Salim

The 9th edition of TEMPO_FESTIVAL - International Festival of Performing Arts Rio de Janeiro - presents "The Beach and the Time", an installation by the artist and architect Pedro Varella with the performance created by the French choreographer Julie Desprairies. Both are participating in the Crossed Artistic Residency Program of the French Institute of Brazil, which took place in 2018 during the festival, and is scheduled to continue in France in 2019.

The Beach and the Time Installation / gru.a - Image 2 of 29
© Rafael Salim

The installation "The Beach and the Time" is organized by two combined operations: demarcating and repositioning. The first consists of the insertion of a large 31x31m and 50 cm high quadrilateral structure that demarcates the work area while serving as a support for the reception of the public. The second occurs from the movement of the existing matter in the place - sand and water – that, repositioned, give rise to a new topographic landscape. Combined, the two operations generate a scenario that gradually changes during the TEMPO FESTIVAL.

The Beach and the Time Installation / gru.a - Exterior Photography
© Rafael Salim

Project gallery

See allShow less

Project location

Address:Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro - State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Click to open map
Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.
About this office
Cite: "The Beach and the Time Installation / gru.a" [Instalação A Praia e o Tempo / gru.a] 08 Jul 2019. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/920435/the-beach-and-the-time-installation-gr> ISSN 0719-8884

© Rafael Salim

“海滩与时间”装置/gru.a

You've started following your first account!

Did you know?

You'll now receive updates based on what you follow! Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors, offices and users.