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#Henrique Oliveira #immersive #set up #mythology #wooden
March 19, 2024
Grace Ebert
Element of 'Corupira' (2023), plywood, tapumes veneer and tree branches, set up view of 'Fairy Tales' on the Gallery of Fashionable Artwork Brisbane 2023. Photograph by C Callistemon, © Henrique Oliveira and QAGOMA. All pictures courtesy of QAGOMA, shared with permission
From the traditional Mesopotamian “Epic of Gilgamesh” to the 18th-century French story of magnificence and the beast, enchanted forests are an everlasting trope of fairy tales. On the Brisbane Gallery of Fashionable Artwork, a brand new group exhibition harnesses the attract of those magical environments and explores worlds past fortunately ever after.
As a substitute of opening with the stereotypical “as soon as upon a time,” Fairy tales introduces viewers to a winding maze of breaking timber. Henrique Oliveira's newest work ( beforehand ), the undulating set up is titled “Corruption” and units a meandering path by way of the gallery. “I attempted to create an atmosphere the place you’ve got a unique relationship with the area and by some means you come again to look. In case you don't lookup, you'll hit your head on a department,” he says in a video in regards to the venture. “Come to your senses. I feel that's what the world is lacking right now.”
“Corupira” twists the Tupi-Guarani fantasy of the demonic curupira, a reddish creature with the facility to ignite. Native to the Brazilian Amazon, legend has it that the monster's legs have been backwards in order that these courageous sufficient to enter the forest could be confused as to which means it was going in the event that they tried to observe its tracks.
Fairy tales is on view in Brisbane till April 28. It's price watching the timelapse under for an outline of how the set up took form, and you will discover extra from Oliveira on Instagram. You may additionally get pleasure from Firela Baéz's work, which pulls on related mythological narratives.
Element of 'Corupira' (2023), plywood, tapumes veneer and tree branches, view of 'Fairy Tales' set up at Brisbane Gallery of Fashionable Artwork 2023. Photograph by C Callistemon, © Henrique Oliveira and QAGOMA
Element of 'Corupira' (2023), plywood, tapumes veneer and tree branches, view of 'Fairy Tales' set up at Brisbane Gallery of Fashionable Artwork 2023. Photograph by C Callistemon, © Henrique Oliveira and QAGOMA
Element of 'Corupira' (2023), plywood, tapumes veneer and tree branches, view of 'Fairy Tales' set up at Brisbane Gallery of Fashionable Artwork 2023. Photograph by C Callistemon, © Henrique Oliveira and QAGOMA
#Henrique Oliveira #immersive #set up #mythology #wooden
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