Exhibition "A Alegria não é a Prova dos N9" (Joy is not a Test of Nine)

Joy is not the proof of the nine

(or an archipelago of singularities )

... this is also the way fate usually behaves with us, it's already

behind us, has already reached out to touch our shoulder, and we are still going to

murmur, It's over, there's no more to see, it's all the same

José Saramago

Ê bumba-iê-iê boi

Next year, month that was

It's bumba-iê-iê-iê

It's the same dance, my ox

Gilberto Gil and Torquato Neto

"Commerce Square", installation by artist Myriam Glatt for the exhibition "Joy is not the Test of Nine"

A alegria não é a prova dos nove is a project for the occupation of the Casa França-Brasil, curated by Alexandre curated by Alexandre Sá, which is not inscribed as a collective exhibition, in the sense of the sense of an expanded construction with diverse works in order to potentiate issues in common issues. On the contrary, as explicitly stated in the subtitle, it is an archipelago of singular eccentric points, capable of provoking, as the dictionary indicates, the construction of space-time where the laws of physics collapse. Or, more concretely, of a set of individual exhibitions of artists with disparate poetics that will cross the boat of the desire to think their own works in relation to the the architecture of the Casa França-Brasil from a determined motto: Oswald de Andrade's already familiar phrase of Oswald de Andrade in the Manifesto Antropófago (Anthropophagic Manifesto), in which joy emerges as a feeling capable of proving elementary operations or as unquestionable proof of the relationship relation, not necessarily additive, between axes. Here, for us, joy is not capable of such an operation. of such an operation. Perhaps it cannot even fit into such logical responsibility. logic.

The 100 years since the Week of Modern Art appear only as a fog so that we can think Brazil, not necessarily primitive, but profound as a stumble, as an epiphany, based on individual questions as an epiphany, from individual questions that will be asked in this building and in its (our) history. building and in its (our) history. The indicative desire is not to think the country strictly and dichotomous country within a perhaps already obsolete departed city, but to discourse in some silence about that something of the country that still murmurs, in spite of. Without disregarding the many stories and narratives that passed through here, as well as their good ghosts that Perhaps with us, they problematize the old tension between us and international interests.

Exactly for this reason, the unknown islands of our archipelago will promote other clouds, without any precipitation assertiveness, so that the public, according to and emotional wandering, will be building their webs of affection, mourning and and regeneration.

Exactly for this reason, one of the possible keys that will open the quantum doors that we carry in our chests, is a dialogue with the song Geleia Geral (in its title borrowed from by Décio Pignatari) by Torquato Neto and Gilberto Gil. The latter, a Nago Buddha, precious birthday in 2022 with his 80 years, as well as Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento Nascimento, and Paulinho da Viola, reminds us that "Joy is the proof of nine. And sadness is your safe haven".

For us, here, still inside the shipwreck, perhaps it is possible to bet on check mate sinking that, if joy is not the proof of the nine, sadness is also no longer our safe harbour. The question that arises is to rebuild some other maturity so that we distrust a little the ports, the anchors, the kings, our certainties and of ourselves. So that we can think of another route for collective navigation, consciously fragile of the fragility that implies in knowing that anthropophagy is the fundamental north for all and any relationship that survives in us and that does not deserve to be obligatorily violent. Wave.

Alexandre Sá

28 July 2022

 
Image: Artist Myriam Glatt poses in front of her works in the exhibition at Casa França-Brasil

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Exhibition "Joy is not a Test of Nine" | 9 individual exhibitions of the artists: Alex Frechette, Clarisse Tarran, Davi Pereira, Eduardo Mariz, Helena Trindade, Ivani Pedrosa, João Paulo Racy, Myriam Glatt, Nathalie Nery

Opening 09 July

Curator: Alexandre Sá 

Closing 30 July

Venue: Casa França Brasil 

Address: Rua Visconde de Itaboraí, 78 - Centro, Rio de Janeiro