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resource for dealing with conflicts in general, in order to showcases a collection of jewelry, consisting of 18-carat
makethese conflicts productives. The care can be hard gold and glass shrapnel extracted from corpses murdered,
to teach, but we know when he’s being mistreated. instead of diamonds. Here, the violence involving drug
trafficking seduces as much as the careers of cocaine that
1 | CARL SPITZWEG, VERDÄCHTIGER RAUCH (FUMACASUSPEITA) pack a hypocritical society which condemns the cartels, but
2 | CARL SPITZWEG, THE BOOKWORM, 50 X 79 CM consume their products.
3 | QUENTIN MACEYS, UGLY DUCHESS, 1513 There is a character of urgence in “Frestas”, which is
4 | SPITZWEG, POOR POET, 1839 perceived not only by the subject, as by the nature of
the work: more than half of the 60 selected works were
CRITIQUE FRESTAS | PAGE 80 commissioned by the Triennial . With that, artists produce
FRESTAS CONSOLIDATED in the present time, temperature and the Sesc fulfills an
important role in the scene, which is also a space for the
AS CUTTING EDGE EVENT promotion and not just display.
In this sense, also wins eminence works that deal with
Sorocaba( a city 40 miles from São Paulo), as in the procedure
TRIENNIAL EXHIBITION ORGANIZED BY SESC BRINGS TOGETHER almost naïve, but to great effect plastic, Reyner Leiva,
WORKS THAT DISCUSS POST-TRUTH AND LOCAL CONTEXT Cuban has assembled a huge Panel with toothbrushes used,
exchanged for new ones with residents of a neighbourhood.
BY FABIO CYPRIANO, IN SOROCABA More politic is the intervention of Maria Thereza Alves,
who researched traces of indigenous communities in
THE MAIN SPACE of the FRESTAS(portuguese for cracks) the region, but the only record found was a coffin in a
Exibhition, the triennial of art organized by Sesc in Sorocaba, museum in town that does not have access to the public.
is a garage. What could represent a certain contempt for the From this context, she created the project “an empty full”,
contemporary art, hiding her in an industry that regularly for which indian potter artist Maximino Kalipety, made
hosts automobiles, reveals himself as a wise strategy. The replicas of the coffin buried in points in the city centre,
high ceilings and large rooms without walls provide a suitable including the foot of the statue of Baltasar Fernandes,
host works while the somewhat marginal aspect of the founder of Sorocaba.
site has everything to do with the theme of this year’s With such works Frestas works wins special importance,
exhibition: “Among post-truth and events”.Post-truth is the creating a dialogue with the city, and not just displaying
technical way of referring to rumors intentionally created works that speak of this in a generic way. Even large-format
to disseminate false truths, i.e. come from places somewhat works, like the graffiti writers Nunca and Panmela Castro
“invisible”, such as garages, for spreading lies. Since 2016, were conducted in buildings of the city, he also treating the
when the Oxford Dictionary chose it as word of the year, indigenous question, her using the prostitution street to talk
post-truth became an object of study and debate. So, point about female empowerment.
to Daniela Labra, curator of Frestas, who brought the issue To create such an experience in an inner city, Sesc contributes
to the field of art, a perfect place for the debate of language. to most radical contemporary art cannot be seen only in
In this sense, many works point exactly to that moment of major centres, as well as the Gorilla Girls, that there are
real fatigue, when not only the speech on social networks, views much more dynamic than in the Masp, in fact. It is
but also major media are in suspicion. from this kind of commitment with the context in which the
At the show, the work that synthesizes best this issue is post-truth can be countered and prevented.
“the year of the lie, 2017”, Matheus Rocha Pitta. In it, a
365-day calendar print in fact only a date in every day, 1 | AUDIENCE INTERACTS IN FRESTAS
April 1, with images of popular demonstrations. Hard best
image to those who read newspaper every day and see FRESTAS
the face of news that even when true, look like lies, given August 12 to December 3
the disgrace in your content. So, obviously the political Sesc Sorocaba
tone of the show is high, like the moment in fact, but not R. Barão de Piratininga, 555, Sorocaba
always as explicit. Mexican Teresa Margolles, for example, frestas.sescsp.org.br/2017/