(I Cross the Street, I’m Still at Home)
2019
The investigations arising around Atravesso a Rua, Ainda Estou Em Casa are closely linked to the architectural planning that emerges in the outskirts of a large city — that is, the suburbs. There is an attentive gaze and a search to capture and observe peculiar situations occurring in the niches and spaces within the suburbs themselves. Whether urban, architectural, or otherwise, these places reveal themselves as unknown, without temporal dimension, presenting an absent presence that exists on a thin line between public and private. Focusing on this idea of a line that wanders between the intimate and the public, the project seeks to acknowledge situations that are primarily found on the street, on an imperceptible barrier between what may still belong to the home but already interferes with the collective space. At this moment, it reflects on the possibility that the street itself might emerge as an extension of the home. The street becomes part of it, offering the same familiarity that would otherwise be found within the home. Beyond the urban concerns that arise, the work also carries an emotional and sensory dimension. An installation is developed that seeks to enter this sense of privacy and explore the feeling of an intermittent, transitory space, using sensory and olfactory stimuli to evoke it.
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