Rachel Rosalen & Rafael Marchetti
The project TERRITÓRIOS was set up in 2007 by artists Rachel Rosalen and Rafael Marchetti from relations between geo-location and construction of meanings through the electronic media: production of interfaces, programming, site-specific installation creating a hybrid interactive space.
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2007_ Circulações, Sesc Art Exhibition, Sesc Paulista Art Gallery
They are a Ma* in the very intense and concentrated time and space that is Tokyo. The presence of our bodies and the remains of bodies resting in these spaces, transforms the place into a liminal territory, a gateway to another dimension of life. It doesn’t matter if you believe that life continues or not, but I experienced the ohaka as a place to demonstrate the love and respect for one’s ancestors.
We trace our personal histories to the memory and flesh beneath the earth. We perform the meaning of these relationships through individual and collective rituals. I choose an intimate language to communicate love: that thin and delicate line that connects our past, present, and future. “The Garden of Love” expresses the visceral and emotional spiral that weaves these distinct states of being.
This work is about the transitory nature life and its absence. Humanity’s comlmunal invention-the town- maintains this plural space in its very center, even in the extreme urban expression of Tokyo.
The garden of love is an installation about the cycle of life.
Life is short and fleeting. Living in Japan, I often noticed the cemeteries (ohaka) in the middle of the city.
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2007 _ Sérgio Motta Art and Technology Foundation Prize, São Paulo, Brazil
http://www.premiosergiomotta.org.br/
2006 _ VIDEOFORMES: MANIFESTATION INTERNATIONALE D’ART VIDÉO ET NOUVEAUX MÉDIAS, CLERMOND-FERRANT, FRANÇA
http://www.nat.fr/videoformes/FESTIVAL/2006/EXPOS/EXPOS_TOLERIE_06.html
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ceramist: KYOKO TOKUMARU
ceramic production in Tokyo: ROSALEN EXHIBITION COMMITTEE/ YOKOHAMA MUSEUM OF ART (YOKOHAMA ARTS FOUNDATION), coordenate by HIROKO SEKI and MICHIKO OGURA for TRANSLOCAL URBANITIES > LOVE POLITICS, YOKOHAMA ART MUSEUM, 2005.
co-production: VIDEOFORMES: MANIFESTATION INTERNATIONALE D’ART VIDÉO ET NOUVEAUX MÉDIAS, CLERMOND-FERRANT, FRANÇA.
special thanks: FUMIO NANJO, HIROKO SEKI.
http://www.nat.fr/videoformes/FESTIVAL/2006/EXPOS/EXPOS_TOLERIE_06.html
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