Some of the looping films in the exhibition make the Animal Farm connection obvious—the first stop off the elevator shows a rooster greeting the dawn in silence. None of the films, in fact, use sound. The projector sits deep in a narrow cavity next to the elevator shaft so that you are tempted to look back at it, but at the same time as you are drawn to the rooster on the screen it’s difficult not to stand in the way of the projector’s beam.
An exhibition by João Maria Gusmão invites you to a “visual odyssey” through films that address metaphysical enigmas of the human and non-human opened on.
An exhibition by João Maria Gusmão invites you to a “visual odyssey” through films that address metaphysical enigmas of the human and non-human opened on.