**Destruction: Box V: Water: Scenes from
Floods
the theme of nature as a source of tragedy appears
to question the solidity of the city and of architecture,
one of The Collector's favorite issues. "The
collection assembles the history of the house, contaminated
with destruction and subtraction; it classifies threats,
bringing out their exposure and fragility", in
the collector's words.
In response to the compulsivity of imaging in the
media, The Collector, with its suggestively political
thematic groupings, does not provide the passivity
of traditional archives we have all seen-it is rather
a testimony of the instrumentalization of these images
for instant consumption-images that can become effective
only through equally compulsive accumulation. As suggested
in French philosopher Jacques Derrida's lecture titled
Mal d'Archive (Archive Fever, 1994), we find "absolute
impatience in relation to a desire for memory."
- Rodrigo Moura, assistant curator -
MAP-BH
Mabe Bethônico was born in Belo Horizonte in
1966 and lives and works there.
Copyright Museu de Arte da Pampulha, 2002.
Museu de Arte da Pampulha
Permanent Collection - Mezanino - Library
07 of June till 08 de August of 2002 |
