Continuing with cycle # 3 of our ARTE + CARE program, artist Rafael Pagatini reviews his work Grito Surdo (Deaf Scream), an installation consisting of 21 megaphones remodelled in concrete and resin that has toured different exhibition spaces since its conception in 2016. In this new arrangement, each piece is detached from the whole to form a series of autonomous objects.
Grito Surdo explores the construction and the difficulties of communication related to the shape of the megaphone and its function of amplifying the voice. The megaphone seeks the collective through the emission of sound in the shared space, whether in a group action, rally or demonstration. Sound is established as the structure of meaning that is shaped by the way that it amplifies communication. In English, the word speaker refers to both, the megaphone (object) and to the public speaker/orator. Here, the communication process is interrupted by the materiality of the work. The concrete megaphones are like dysfunctional objects that have lost their function, they are petrified as memories of speeches that never came out. In this sense, the strength of the work is laid in its sculptural form and in the symbolic value that is addressed to the eye of the observer.
Part of the sales of these works will benefit another relevant initiative of public interest in the fields of culture, health and primary care. For this third cycle, we will support “Maré says NO to the Coronavirus”, a campaign led by NGO Redes da Maré, aimed at the population living in the 16 communities in Maré, Rio de Janeiro, and which seeks to face the humanitarian crisis caused by the pandemic. The campaign’s objective is to achieve donations of material items and financial resources for the realization of the following proposals: food security; assistance to the homeless population; provision of income for women; health care and prevention; production and dissemination of secure information and content; support for local artists and cultural groups.
On the following weeks, joining cycle #3, artists Zé Carlos Garcia and Ismael Monticelli will participate bringing new works. Stay tuned on our online channels!
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ARTE+CARE is a program to support our artists and to help people and organizations that aid, care, and protect those who are most affected during these difficult times: cultural workers facing economic strain, children and vulnerable communities. Series of unpublished works at affordable prices (ranging from USD 250 to USD 900 each) were developed exclusively by our represented artists for the program, and each month, part of the sales will be donated to a different initiative.