“Hunger for Knowledge”
Hunger for Knowledge
(SKU. 3995)
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Date
2015 -
Technique
mixed technique -
Dimensions
(H x W x D) 28 x 15 x 25 cm -
Edition
10 -
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In this work, Camille Kachani creates elements that nature would not provide, but that exist potentially in it: wood. Even though it is artificial, the reference to wood growing inside a book, sprouting from it and feeding on its words, represents an emotional charge.
For the artist, it is as if there is something similar between nature and the act of reading – a way of feeding on words, needing pages to be able to grow. "Hunger for knowledge", or "Cognitio enim fames" in Latin, can be seen as a manifestation of the act of giving life to inanimate objects.
Biography
Camille Kachani
Camille Kachani's work combines photography, collage and sculpture to talk about concepts such as identity and belonging, based on autobiographical references, and how these are formed through the acquisition of culture, that is, how identity is constructed/dissolved, in an eternal movement.
This movement is also based on the media culture of stimuli, mainly visual, which are received exhaustively in everyday life. The bombardment of information begins to impose a kind of selective capture on the individual, giving up contemplation. In the Invisibles series, the artist presents objects that are recurrent in everyday life and are not “processed” by the eyes of the citizen in transit. Used cars, beer crates and traffic cones are given a different covering, such as plush, or a more striking color. The result is an approximation of this forgotten object.
Kachani produces in thematic series and faithfully commits to a production period based on this series. The use of different materials makes it possible to move on to a new series that delights you.
“They are designs designed by a belief freed from autonomy, or from constructivist dogmas. The industrial, the structural and the functional are completely covered by fiction, by the effect.” Marcelo Campos.
The artist has works in the collections of the main museums in Brazil. Among the main exhibitions are: MAC SP; TRIO International Biennial of the Tridemensional/ Rio de Janeiro (2015); Anna Maria Niemeyer: a path, Paço Imperial/RJ (2013); Reflected Mirror, CC Helio Oiticica, RJ (2012); MAM/RJ (2010); MAC/PR, Paço das Artes/ SP (2008), XIV Biennale Internationale de Nancy, France (2006), MoLAA, USA (2004).
Representative galleries
Zipper Gallery , Sao Paulo
Destaques da carreira
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"Solilóquio" | 2019 | Zipper Galeria, São Paulo, SP
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"Sem título", 2010 | Obra que faz parte do acervo permanente do MAC/Niteroi - RJ
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"One dealer", 2006 | 14° Bienal Internacional de Nancy, França
