Artist statement:
O pássaro lento [The Slow Bird], was the group exhibition I curated for Affective Affinities, the 33a São Paulo Biennial in 2018. Both the guest artists and I presented artworks that activated links between the visual arts, literature and translation, through experiences that proposed expanded temporality as an alternative to the modern fetish of speed. I understand the experience of speed and slowness as political experiences rooted in the body. They influence our understanding of space and distance, how we affect each other and how we meet. For over a century now, our species was trained from a young age to despise slowness and to desire speed. As a result, we are now all struggling when trying to imagine a different way of being with oneself and with each other. The Slow Bird featured artwork by artists Roderick Hietbrink (Holland, 1975), Ben Rivers (UK, 1972), Daniel Bozhkov (Bulgaria, 1959), Elba Bairon (Bolivia, 1947), Katrín Sigurdardóttir (Iceland/USA, 1967), Paola Sferco (Argentina, 1974), Sebastián Castagna (Argentina, 1965), Žilvinas Landzbergas (Lithuania, 1979) and writer Pablo Martín Ruiz (Argentina, 1964). Outranspo –Ouvroir de translation potencial, group of multilingual translators, writers, researchers and musicians dedicated to creative and experimental translation- wrote the interpretative texts that introduced the artworks on the extended labels. My own piece in the show, Footnote, worked both as artwork and as the curatorial text for the exhibition.