Círculo Mágico, 2014 - 2016



Magic Circle, 2014 - 2016

Video installation with three full HD sincronized channels. Mono-channel version for demonstration. Created from the eponymous installation presented at the Fundação Eva Klabin, Rio de Janeiro, 2014, as part of the project Respiração, curator Marcio Doctors

In Magic Circle fourteen artworks from Eva Klabin Foundation - a collector's house transformed into a museum - "talk" to the visitor. Selected paintings, objects, sculptures, including the owner's shoes, disposed at specfic points of the house, in a visitation circuit previously established, interact with an imagined ghost-spectator through acoustic-luminous devices that set off humorous speeches about their own 'memory' or the lack of it. The 27 minutes video recreates the site-specific project Rennó did in 2014 in the house where Eva Klabin (1903-1991) lived in Rio de Janeiro with more than two thousand pieces, covering almost 50 centuries, from ancient Egypt to Impressionism.

[lengh] 27 min Text Rosângela Rennó
Voices Rosângela Rennó e [and] Celso Junto Recording and mastering of voices Alexande Hang, Drum Estúdio Video recording Mario Grisolli Video and sound editing Isabel Escobar English version Rebecca Atktinson Soundtrack Antônio Escobar Post-editing Leandro N Lima