CABANS IN BLACK WATER FORESTS BY LILIANE DARDOT. 2019. USINA DE ARTE, PERNAMBUCO - BRAZIL.
The installation consists of three sheets of glass with designs printed in ceramic ink. The drawings show people who live in Água Preta, combined with details of the vegetation of the Atlantic Forest, the ecosystem where the Cabanos lived and hid. The artist discovered evidence of what happened during the Cabana revolt from 1832 to 1836, in the Regency period, when black people fled and freed poor whites, natives, small landowners from the villages of Jacuípe, taking refuge in the Bosque Temoratas, on the banks of the dark waters of the river. One, between the coast and the countryside.
The slides were installed in a chosen location in the Usina de Arte Botanical Garden, in a position facing east and west from the sun. The gap between the blades allows the visitor to penetrate there, having the experience of seeking different views of the work together with the landscape. And at that moment her image will be integrated into the drawings, in the space where the Cabanos appear and disappear.
