cao guimarães passatempo,

Starting on July 21, Galeria Nara Roesler will present Cao Guimarães’ show “Passatempo.” Water – a symbol of rebirth and an element which contains and feeds the embryo – was the focal point for Solange Farkas’ curating. 

Passatempo is a short inventory of the obsessions that get converted to poetry in Cao Guimarães’ work. The show follows the path of his work as he explores the relationship between man, object, and landscape. In the photo series Gambiarras, human presence is only assumed. In Paquerinhas, it is projected onto the ironic relationship between kites and fishing rods. In Limbo, it vanishes from the world altogether, leaving empty swings. And then we get to Otto, his most recent piece and the highlight of the show. Cao named the piece after his son, and describes it as a romance film. For 70 minutes, a person, a hitherto absent symbol, is on the spotlight. The storyline is centered around the figure of a woman. Her face, her body, her voice, her laughter, her belly as it grows and turns to a bubble about to burst into a scion. 
The curator Solange Farkas writes that “the offspring gets born, the offspring sprouts.” She claims that to Cao Guimarães, “cinema is an art still in its cradle.” This is the artist’s fourth solo show at Galeria Nara Roesler.