Exhibition "Where was she looking when everything went dark"

Corina Ishikura and Jussara Marangoni bring "Where she was looking when everything went dark" to the Centro Cultural Correios São Paulo

Exhibition curated by Paulo Galina is on show from March 8 to April 22

There is a double of the world. One that every human being carries within himself. In their entrails. In the eye sockets. In your mind. A double of the world: ordered by the heart and engraved in our brains.

 The exhibition Where was she looking when everything went dark, curated by Paulo Gallina, speculates on and presents these anomalous spaces that do not obey the imperative and objective laws of physics.

The artists Corina Ishikura and Jussara Marangoni bring to the public, at the Centro Cultural Correios, a set of works that, by delving into studies on space and the sometimes literal connections, enable the occupation and inhabiting of this country-continent that is Brazil.

As is typical of the restlessness of artists, the research of both, at a certain point, takes a step to the side and looks at the material reality of the world from a bias, searching, perhaps, for what physics and optics are unable to reveal: perhaps searching for a point of confluence, where humanity integrates and inserts itself into nature, rather than opposing it in the form of culture.

Here, in this exhibition space so full of affection, there is no separation between nature and culture, between human and inhuman, between wild and civilized, because here there is only that which affects and that which is affected, converging like a river. River, whose waters always pass so that it will always be the same; as well as ideas that always flow so that the provocations, about what in the end makes us human, always take us further, into a certain idea of landscape and nature, never further away.

 

 

About the artists

Corina Ishikura is an artist and researcher. Her production tries to express, through painting, collage, drawings and other materials, nature as something far beyond man and the elements of planet Earth, it is about existing through the connection between all bodies and elements that make up the universe. It speaks of an existence impregnated with vibrations and mutations that refers to a great biological neural network, where everyone interacts with their neighbours, in the same way that neurons do with various axon terminals connected via synapsesto dendrites. In this empty space, in this space between, there is no way to exist by itself.  

Graduated in Literature at Mackenzie University. Participates as a special student in the Master of Arts course at USP. Attended the studio of the artist Kazuo Wakabayashi. Participated in the artistic residencies: Kaaysa Art Residency, Boiçucanga SP in 2019 and by the Mokiti Okada Foundation, in the cities of Kiyoto, Atami and Hakone in Japan in 2017, among others. She has exhibited in art institutions and salons such as Space, surface, impermanence , Museu de Arte de Blumenau, SC (2021/22); Ar Acervo Rotativo , Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade SP, curated by Laerte Ramos; Ser pássaro sem poder voar, Ateliê Alê SP (2021); Leituras, Casa Contemporânea SP (2021); Otras Tierras, Círculo da Arte de Toledo, Spain (2021); Leituras, Casa Contemporânea SP (2021); Metáforas e Formas , Fundação Inatel, Évora, Portugal (2021); Respira Arte Funarte SP (2020)[awarded]; Últimos dias, Ateliê Fonte SP (2020); Oswaldo Goeldi Biennial, Taubaté́ SP (2020); Casa Tato SP (2020); Lu Mourelle Art Gallery , Cascais, Portugal (2020); 26th Plastic Arts Salon of Praia Grande SP; SP (2019); 16th. Contemporary Art Salon of Guarulhos SP (2019); Thousand and One, Casa Lâminas SP and Murilo Castro Gallery, Belo Horizonte MG, itinerant, organized by Celso Fioravante; International Contemporary Art Salons of Paris, Luxembourg and Stuttgart (2019); Mokiti Okada Foundation (2017); 1st Biennial SESC Brasília-DF (2016)[awarded].

 

Jussara Marangoni was born in São Paulo, lives and works in Araçatuba. She graduated in Arts from FAAP and completed her master's degree in design at UNESP. She is an arts teacher, having collaborated with universities such as Mackenzie, FAAP, Santa Marcelina, Belas Artes, PUCSP and workshops at SESC.

His recent researches in watercolour paintings and charcoal drawings, refer to living matter, structures that look like roots, but also neural networks like anatomy drawings. They speak of a life, of an inhuman body, often materialised in its charred version and in a process of erasure.

Participated in artistic residencies, exhibitions in independent spaces, museums, galleries, cultural centres among them: Ocupa MARP - Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, SP (2022); Space, surface, impermanence - Museu de Arte de Blumenau, SC (2021/22); Being a bird without being able to fly at Atliê Alê (2021) - São Paulo, SP; Readings at Casa Contemporâneas (2021) - São Paulo, SP; Last days at the Source - São Paulo, SP (2020); Oswaldo Goeldi Biennial - Taubaté, SP (2020); Casa Tato - São Paulo, SP (2020); Entretecidas - Centro Cultural UFSJ, MG (2020); Das ruínas em construção - Centro de Artes da UDESC - Florianópolis, SC (2019); Raiz, veia, afluente - Museu de Arte de Blumenau, SC (2019); Entretecidas - Museu de Arte de Cascavel, PR (2019); IV Bienal do Sertão de Artes Visuais, Teresina, PI (2019); Raiz, veia, affluente - CCW Ribeirão Preto, SP (2019); Espaços Solitários - Casa da Memória Italiana - Ribeirão Preto, SP (2019). Contemplated with the FUNARTE Respirarte Visual Arts Award and the Aldir Blanc Incentive Award in the Artist Book project in 2020.

 

 

SERVICE 

Exposure: What was she looking at when everything went dark

Artists: Corina Ishikura and Jussara Marangoni

When: From March 8 to April 22, 2022, Monday to Friday, 10am to 5pm

Where: Centro Cultural Correios São Paulo

Address: Praça Pedro Lessa, s/n - Vale do Anhangabaú, Centro, São Paulo - SP

Free admission. With access for disabled persons. Age rating: Free

How to get there: Subway - São Bento Station, exit to Vale do Anhangabaú.

Information: (11) 2102-3691

E-mail: centroculturalsp@correios.com.br