Despite having participated in the recent MASP show, De Dentro e De Fora, this is the first time the urban art collective BijaRi has shown its work inside a gallery. And true to Choque Cultural’s rep for showing edgy, streetwise art, the show fizzes with powerful imagery. A pair of police truncheons become a makeshift cross, while in Neutralized Revolution, the fuses for a set of Molotov cocktails are three neatly-knotted ties.
Objects, sculptures, installations and mini video mappings are woven together to create the feeling of an ‘Estado de Sítio’ – state of siege – that the artists relate to the way our private lives are being conducted.
‘We see a growing consent for a violence that’s imposed on a daily basis, while forms of resistance are banalised and criminalised,’ says Rodrigo Araujo, a member of the group, which was formed in 1997 by a group of architects and artists. At Choque, the works form a war front between power and the possibility of change – witness the mutating table of weapons/food in the video mapping piece Natureza Morta (see video, below). This is a powerful, utterly unmissable show.
Date 11 Feb-31 Mar
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