IT SIGNIFIES THE SPACE THAT SURROUNDS ME, AND THEREFORE THE SPACE THAT I CALL MINE AS AN EXTENSION OF MYSELF. MY BEDROOM, MY SANCTUARY, THE PLACE THAT HOLDS THE THINGS THAT MAKES IT MY OWN. LIKE AN OPEN DIARY OF MY DAY TO DAY LIFE, I OPEN THE DOORS OF MY BEDROOM TO THOSE WHO WANT TO WANDER AROUND. MAKING THE SPACE WHERE I LIVE AND SLEEP A TIME MACHINE THAT WORKS IN PRESENT TIME.

*MATERIALS: 1M3 OF SAND

SECRET, A STATE OF GOOD FEELING

ANY OF THE PRACTICES THAT COMPOSE THE UNIVERSE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, EVENTHE ONES THAT TOUCH POLITICAL OR SOCIAL EDGES, SIMULATE A GAME. BEYOND THEPERSONAL APPRECIATIONS, IN THE END, THE PURPOSE OF AN ARTWORK ISORIENTATED TOWARDS THAT TERRITORY, WHERE JUST FOR PLEASURE WE INVEST OURTIME TO THEN LOSE IT, THE SAME WE DO WHEN WE PLAY, AND THAT MATTERS TO NOONE, AND THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF COMPLAINT. THE ARTIST, IN ALL OF ITSEXPRESSIONS, GIVES FREE REIN TO THE IMAGINATION CREATING, COMBININGMATERIALS, WORKING WITH THEIR BODIES, ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIPS; IN THE END,WHAT WE END UP DOING IS A GAME. SOMETIMES THIS GAME IS AN INDIVIDUALEXPERIENCE, PRACTICED ONLY BY THE ARTIST HIMSELF. SOMETIMES IS SET WITHAUDIENCE PARTICIPATION, THAT LENDS TO ENTER THE GAME. A FEW TIMES, IS ACOLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE, WHERE ARTISTS AND PUBLIC ARE INVOLVED IN AN EVENTGOVERNED BY CERTAIN VAGUE RULES, EVEN IMPLIED, THAT LEADS TO BE CELEBRATEDIN COMMUNITY, LIKE IF OF A RELIGIOUS ACT WE WERE SPEAKING. AND WHEN THATHAPPENS, LIKE HERE, AND WHEN YOU SHARE A SECRET THAT IS KNOWN IS IMPORTANT,ENTHUSIASM AWAKES, AND WE KNOW IS CONTAGIOUS. EVERY NEW PARTICIPANT OFTHE GAME LETS HIMSELF IMBUE FROM THE PLAYFUL SPIRIT THAT GUIDES. SOME JOYUNFOLDS AND FILLS THOSE WHO ARE CELEBRATING, EVEN THOUGH WE UNDERSTANDTHAT THIS ACT BY ITSELF, WILL NOT CHANGE THE COURSE OF HISTORY, BUTINEVITABLY, ONCE INSTALLED, WILL ALLOWS US TO FEEL A LITTLE MORE CLOSE OFREACHING THAT STATE OF WELFARE THAT WE PURSUE SO MUCH, AS A PERSON, AS ASOCIETY, AS SPECIES. SO FRIENDS, LETS SHARE THIS IMPORTANT SECRET TO THOSEWHO KNOW THAT THEY WILL GROW AND GROW WITH IT.

TEXT: AUGUSTO ZANELA

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