Portfolio - Fondazione Antonio Ratti

understanding is the proof of error.
for 6 years I have worked in dealing
with the identity of things and
places, questioning hierarchy and
control, and often switching the roles
between the various actors implied
in each production.
RAFAEL
I consider error to be a tool of
activation and I often see flaws as
ready-made forms requiring a frame
that highlights it rather than an active
intervention. I believe that artistic
practice can take place both in activity
and passivity, directly and indirectly,
individually and collaboratively.
MEDEIROS
zones
2016
documentary short about “the zone”
(region in the suburbs of Paris, between
the boroughs of Les Lilas, Bagnolet and
Menilmontant)
https://vimeo.com/161390227 (excerpt)
the place of the thing
(is indicated by the very failure
of its representation)
2013
two thousand photocopies
made from a blank A4 paper sheet
bit.ly/1WlTcKT (animation excerpt)
[previous page] photocopy #2000
[this page] photocopies #106, #759 et #1630
i live with you
2009-present
photography
variables dimensions
what i don’t know is what
really matters
2014
performance / video
bit.ly/1YnBKUF
— Partition for a broken broken telephone —
january 2015, paris, france
1. Say out loud that a game will take place.
2. Ask those who want to participate to make a circle.
3. Ask one person choose a word they would like to get rid off and
that he/she passes the word by whispering on his neighbors ears.
The word must be said in the mother tongue of the person who
says it first.
4. Ask each one of the groupe to pass around the word until it
reaches the last participant, who should say it out loud.
5. The word should be taken as a sound instead of a meaning.
People should try to pass on the sound as accurately as possible.
6. The game is done once every participant has started with his
own word, each at one’s turn.
7. First words should not be the revealed, or else everybody loses
the game.
broken broken telephone
2015
group action
[previous page]
everything that is solid
melts into thin air
(lamp, sweat, chair)
2013
exhibition at Parque
Lage, Rio de Janeiro
sweat (everything that
is solid melts into thin
air III)
2014
series of video-drawings
made with sweat
rafaelmedeiros.fr
chair (everything that is solid melts
into thin air II)
2012
video / performance
bit.ly/1XpkwGk
lamp (everything that is solid melts into thin air I)
2010
wax sculpture, metal, light bulb
video
disposable sculptures
2014
body, ten trash bags /
images of the performance
and subsequent drawings
flickering
2010-present
series of short-circuited
lights and panels (video)
bit.ly/23mP6ro
flickering
2010-present
series of short-circuited
lights and panels (video)
bit.ly/23mP6ro
fountains
2010-present
series of involuntary
waterfalls (video)
rafaelmedeiros.fr
what we agree not to see
2014
5’20 film in loop (still)
collage on craft paper
mapping of landscape
made during residency in a coffee farm in Brazil (São João)
vimeo.com/125401933 (excerpt)
landscapes: waterspring
2014
collage of postcards and
label from a water bottle
[cover image]
landscapes: dam
2014
collage of postcards
RAFAEL MEDEIROS
born rio de janeiro, 1987
lives in Paris
Product Design Bachelor
Faculdade da Cidade, Rio de Janeiro, 2010
Fine Arts Masters
EAV Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, 2010-12
ENSAD (École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs), 2013-14
IHEAP (Institut des Hauts Études en Arts Plastiques), 2015-16
Université Paris VIII, Saint-Denis, 2016-17
Currently in collaboration
with artist Marinella Senatore at Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers and
in september at Centre Georges Pompidou
with the artists-researchers from IHEAP for a 2-day exhibition at
the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Val-de-Marne (MAC VAL)
exhibitions
collective exhibitions
2016 // Maison des Fougères, Paris, France
2014 // Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris, France
2013 // La Rotonde ENSAD, Paris France
2013 // Coletiva 2013 Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro Brazil
2013 // Casa DezInove, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009 // TEMPO_FESTIVAL das Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
[future] collective exhibitions
May 2016 // Galerie Planète Rouge
October 2016 // MAC VAL
performance
2015 // Téléphone Arabe @ Plateforme Gallery, Paris
2014 // lavadouro @ casamata, Rio de Janeiro
2014 // Azimuth @ Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
2014 // WIDKIWRM @ La Rotonde ENSAD, Paris
2011 // WARM UP ARTgerecht, Berlin
video
2014 // Festival Façade. Plovdiv, Bulgaria