Associação Cultural Videobrasil

Combining video and animation, this piece deals with the tense, difficult possibilities of socialization in urban settings. The plants and trees in street medians and gardens personify the conflict-ridden relationships that verge on neurosis and hysteria and populate the flows of life in the city. The recourse to animism renders laughable the clumsy attempts of inhabitants to manipulate the urban scenery, since, more than creating zones of relief and pause, their efforts to bring nature into the landscape result in signs of the exasperation that dominates and conforms said scenery, betrayed by the kitsch aspect of the gardening of bushes and trees. Additionally, the piece is an ironic demonstration of the perverse way in which man vainly tricks himself into believing he controls nature. Parálisis contains elements often featured throughout the artist’s career, such as the short duration, the swift edits, the proximity with animation, and the concern with intersubjective relationships. The title itself reverberates intensely in the manipulations that impregnate the image in motion.