Equilíbrio Instável | Unstable Balance
The pandemic has deeply increased the political, social, economic and sanitary chaos we have been facing in Brazil. Trying to keep mentally (and physically and economically and emotionally) balanced and healthy became a major struggle for most people.
Besides that, with the need for social isolation, I suddenly found myself - as have many people - using mobile phones in a much more intense way in everyday life, as a way of connecting with the world out there, working and keeping in touch with loved ones. I also found myself improvising "peculiar structures" to keep the mobile phone close to me while I was doing something else.
From there the idea of this series was born. I worked on the intersection between the sensations of instability (caused by the current social, political, economic and sanitary situation) and the omnipresence of mobile phones in the quarantine routine. I created, with domestic objects, small "sculptures-improvisations" (esculturas-gambiarras) whose function would be to hold the mobile phone in the most diverse situations/environments. The resulting structures have something of unlikeliness - as much as this "new" configuration that we are experiencing - and, despite fulfilling their function, they do it in an unsatisfactory way: they carry, in their structural essence, a fragile balance, about to collapse. The images bring a certain humor surrounded by discomfort - they evoke the attempt to go on with life, but knowing that we walk on a tightrope, helpless, alone and without a safety net.
