Marina Camargo
Porto Alegre (RS)
Cidade Planejada (Sao Paulo)
[Planned City (Sao Paulo)], 2014
In this video, Marina Camargo slowly removes pieces of a map representing part of Sao Paulo and reshapes a new one by finding another way to join the irregular forms of the city blocks. The urban design of Sao Paulo, lacking any kind of planning, looks so random as the recreated map. Camargo’s work is evidently ironical when she calls this new arrangement of the map, a trial-and-error game, an act of urban planning.
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list of works
Affective Urban Archeology, 2011
Always Something Between Us,
2012 to 2014Av. Celso Garcia 2004/2014,
2004 and 2014Floating Letters – Mapping of the Sign Painters, 2014
From the Obliterado [Obliterated] series, 2012
Half-Mile Apartment/House City/
Flow House, 2014I <3 Peddler, 2009 and Sand Strip, 2009
Parking City, 2012 and Parking.ttf, 2012
Pixação: São Paulo Signature, 2004
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about the author
Marina has both her graduation and master in visual arts and works with photography, drawing, video and other media. The core subject of her production is the representation of the world apart from its origin. She took part in solo and collective exhibitions in Brazil and other countries, and received awards and scholarships to study abroad. Recently, she published the book Como se faz um deserto, based on researches about Brazil’s rough northeast region of the country, the sertão.
