Clara Ianni, winner of the A-I-R Laboratory residency, presents her artworks Linha and Forma Livre. Linha is made up of a series of engravings of geographical lines, derived from historical treaties on the boundaries of the Brazilian territory, and detached from their maps, indicating not only its formal aspect, but its political content, as they redraw the relations among men and peoples. Forma Livre is a video divided in two channels, in which images of the projects from Brasília are accompanied by the audio of interviews with Niemeyer and Lucio Costa, in which they answer questions about a massacre of workers in the construction of the city, and deny the event and its relevance. Clara describes how the video reflects upon architectural shapes and their means of production as the modern aesthetic itself paradoxically operated as a political instrument.
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