Flows, fixed and fluid
“In fact, the city of Rio does not exist yet”
Le Corbusier, 1936
This screen printed phrase in the glass Museum of Modern Art by the artist Laercio Redondo, in his recent exhibition in the city, we rub with what we see through. The modern wonder at the curves of nature here is green and concrete.
There is a Rio de Janeiro, one of Rio de Janeiro project, a past of Rio de Janeiro. All in one line, full of corners. Ungoverned, full of fractures. So goes the landscape as a city. A kind of urban confluence of nonsense, a way to find ways to spread streams. This move by the city and the chance encounters that arise from this transit is that installs work Aleta Valente. Through his avatar on instagram, @ex_miss_febem, the artist appropriates the virtual space as an arena as becoming, as a city. The job at hand, the instantaneous, strong component of Rio's social life, is the way to the realization of a work that is nail, blood, flesh, something even stranger to patent digital world.
Not chance, she was banned from Facebook several times due to the many complaints, guidelines imposed by corporate hypocritical modesty, and haters engaged with too much free time. With the mobile phone as device and a platform as a mean, the flow of images became more natural. Overexposure strengthens the vital signs of EX_MISS_FEBEM. Excess gives movement. The profusion is uncontrolled relative. The lack (or would flow) is necessary. This body-city fluidity is work Aleta Valente, the dilution of the subject in the experiment. The seduction, sexuality are latencies that unclog the veins. The city flows are mixed with the fluids of the body. When you generate a meme with a photo of a take-out food (usually a meal in a covered aluminum foil or cardboard container about her semi-naked body), moves on the imagery of the female figure in Rio de Janeiro, straddling archaic views that often they do this in the comments. And the better your responses queued in fragile screen accumulation which pulsates a vulnerable body to the city's outcomes.