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Slides > 320 colored photographs (2,4 x 3,5 cm each)
Between 2008 and 2011, I have systematically photographed the first call of every visitor who came into my tiny apartment, while I lived in Paris as a student. I’ve therefore compiled an archive of over 300 images, mostly of youngsters in relaxed poses, all of them standing at the same spot in the hallway, under a red sign which read, in Portuguese: APARELHO (device, apparatus.)
The name served as homage to the places used by several leftist groups as a meeting place as well as a temporary residence, during the confrontation with the Brazilian military dictatorship (1964-1985). And as homage to journey of my father, Silvio Jablonski, a 23-year-old engineering student who lived in one of these communist "apparatuses," until being taken in August 1971 during the military operation Operação Bandeirantes (OBAN) to the seat of DOI-CODI in São Paulo, where he would be arrested and tortured.
Through a mirror strategy, the works aims bringing to the present that fundamental correlation between youth’s individual experience and the collective awakening of a political awareness, which so profoundly marked the 1960’s and 1970’s. After all, the vast majority of the militants of the past was comprised of young people, in their mid-20s, and the time spent in those clandestine apartments also represented, for many of them, a first experience of freedom away from the repression in their own family homes.
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Views
of the work in the exhibition Elefante branco com paninho em cima,
Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, 2016
> 3 light tables (33 x 45 x 5,5 each), 03 magnifying glasses and 130 colored slides
> 3 light tables (33 x 45 x 5,5 each), 03 magnifying glasses and 130 colored slides
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Views
of the installation in the exhibition Homemade Mysteries at Galeria
Antonio Sibasolly, Anápolis, 2018
> 300 color slides, 2 metal boxes, 1 automatic slide projector, 2 copper tubes, 2 curtains, adhesive vinyl (variable dimensions)
> 300 color slides, 2 metal boxes, 1 automatic slide projector, 2 copper tubes, 2 curtains, adhesive vinyl (variable dimensions)