ExhibitionSeptember 6, 2024
Jeane Terra: Memórias Submersas (Submerged Memories). Casa de Petrópolis
The Casa de Petrópolis Instituto de Cultura presents the exhibition “Memórias Submersas” by Jeane Terra, curated by Shannon Botelho. The show will be on view until October 31, 2024. It brings to light a profound reflection on collective memory and human action on the environment, focusing on the city of Petrópolis and its historical relationship with flooding. In her poetics, Jeane Terra uses memory as a valuable tool for capturing and safeguarding the ruins that remain of an unstable world.
The tragedy that occurred in Petrópolis in the summer of 2022, which resulted in the loss of 240 lives and left thousands homeless, serves as a starting point for the artist to explore the scars left by this event and their resonance in collective memory. The exhibition promises to be a space for introspection and debate about the consequences of human actions on the environment and the importance of preserving collective memory as a warning for the future.
Shannon Botelho, curator of the exhibition, highlights the relevance of Jeane Terra's work: “What do we want from the future? This is the question that Jeane Terra prints in her works and symbolically vocalizes in Submerged Memories. East and West, Sertão and Petrópolis, here and there. Everything converges in the message structured by the artist and leads us exactly to the heart of time: the present,” she says.
“Submerged Memories” invites the public to immerse themselves in a space where past and present intertwine. The main installation in the Casa de Petrópolis dining room features dishes that carry images transferred from historical floods and the 2022 disaster. Water, the central element of the exhibition, is used as a signifier that unites different realities affected by the same fear: the dual force of water as a source of life and destruction.
The tragedy that occurred in Petrópolis in the summer of 2022, which resulted in the loss of 240 lives and left thousands homeless, serves as a starting point for the artist to explore the scars left by this event and their resonance in collective memory. The exhibition promises to be a space for introspection and debate about the consequences of human actions on the environment and the importance of preserving collective memory as a warning for the future.
Shannon Botelho, curator of the exhibition, highlights the relevance of Jeane Terra's work: “What do we want from the future? This is the question that Jeane Terra prints in her works and symbolically vocalizes in Submerged Memories. East and West, Sertão and Petrópolis, here and there. Everything converges in the message structured by the artist and leads us exactly to the heart of time: the present,” she says.
“Submerged Memories” invites the public to immerse themselves in a space where past and present intertwine. The main installation in the Casa de Petrópolis dining room features dishes that carry images transferred from historical floods and the 2022 disaster. Water, the central element of the exhibition, is used as a signifier that unites different realities affected by the same fear: the dual force of water as a source of life and destruction.
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