Botar Fé (Put faith)
Notions of experience and interaction in practices associated with games are fundamental parts for understanding the way in which the artist Froiid's production articulates relationships between the viewer and the work of art, which also include ideas of risk, strategy, participation and collaboration. However, what is at stake is not winning or losing, but understanding the mechanisms that create, on the one hand, efforts to exercise radical imagination and, on the other, give rise to competitions on unequal bases as a metaphor for critical reflection on society or of the artistic circuit itself.
Therefore, forms of play can affirm pleasures and setbacks in life, contemplating or questioning moral dominants, or they can operate a field of re-existence, in which the player is not placed in the position of being tied to the rules that others operate, but as a creator of new rules. It should be noted that their work encourages due diligence and negotiation in an arc of collective decision-making that goes from the selection of objects that make up the games to the establishment of prescriptive frameworks that modulate the activity of each individual in this small community that is formed at the moment of the game.
In this edition of Bolsa Pampulha, Froiid associates the World Cup sticker album with 22 images – signed by the players – of floodplain football scenes which, in turn, refer to the times represented by the same number of flags. At the Pampulha Art Museum, in an outdoor format, the artist installed photographs of players in an ambiguous scene between celebration and disappointment. For the artist, the practice of the game alludes to a moment of suspension of reality, encompassing cultural processes through the creation of rules and the search for objectives. It is, at the same time, matter and action, in which the playful exercise operates driving forces for different ways of thinking and experiencing spaces and cities.
Amanda Carneio
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Outside Frog Doesn't Snore
Installations exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Crafts for the artistic residency Bolsa Pampulha 2021/2022, for the exhibition "Botar Fé". The installation is made up of 22 flags inspired by the coats of amateur football teams in Belo Horizonte.
I made a study of the colors and shapes most used in coats of arms to compose a set of flags measuring 2 meters of fabric and applied to 4 meter bamboo poles. The work also comprises an audio of songs and drums recorded and later mixed from different fans, as well as sounds from games, forming a continuous sound piece.
A good goatling doesn't scream
Installation made for the "Botar Fé" exhibition. Designed as site specific, for the gardens of Brazilian artist and landscaper Burle Marx at the Pampulha Art Museum. The installation holds three 2mx3m photos. The images show three players prostrate on floodplain fields. The figures have their backs to the public and face the museum designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. The work came from observing the religious manifestations of football players on floodplain fields (amateur football) and the occupation of the public who regularly visit the gardens of the Pampulha Art Museum, even without entering the Building.
