Renata Cruz y Laura Gorski

– Casa WAbi 2019

Community Project

Enciclopedia de la costa – Habitantes de la costa

COAST ENCYCLOPEDIA is the compilation and organization of knowledge of the people of the Coast of Oaxaca.
Through meetings and conversations with artists Laura Gorski and Renata Cruz, people were invited to write and draw on topics they considered relevant in their experience where they live.
The meetings during the month of July 2019 resulted in six volumes of local knowledge: recipes, medicinal plants, animals, trees, stories and legends and a specific volume on Las Negras Community.
The books, with 50 pages in 18.5 x 12 cm format, are of the same measures used by the German publishing house Insel Verlag in its collection of books on universal themes in arts, history, philosophy, literature and other areas of the humanities in What artists have been working on in recent years.
Although this project was closed at the end of the residence, the idea of an encyclopedia of local knowledge continues to be developed in the work of the artists, who set out to create an open encyclopedia and with as many voices as possible. A collective construction, not hierarchical and decentralized.

Log-Piece

  • Sin Título (2019) Fotografías impresas de las esculturas creadas en residencia

  • Sin Título (2019) Seis cuadernos en caja de cartón, pintados con tintes naturales.

Sin Título (2019)
Fotografías impresas de las esculturas creadas en residencia

Sin Título (2019)
Seis cuadernos en caja de cartón, pintados con tintes naturales.

Brazil

Artist duo based in Brazil.

Laura Gorski and Renata Cruz have been working together since 2015. They received, in 2016, the 20º English Culture Festival prize for the realization of the “Dias úteis” installation, built from the work of the writer Virgínia Woolf, also presented at the Sesc São Carlos. They will participate in 2016, of the exhibition “Porque somos eles e elas” curated by Josué Mattos at the Blau Projects gallery in São Paulo. In 2017, they will carry out together with the public the work “Caminhos, para nos fazerem parentes do futuro”, for the exhibition “Geografias, nosso lugar é caminho” curator of Bernardo Mosquera at Sesc Santos. The same action was done at the Rolo Fair, also in Santos, with the participation of the public. In 2017 they will participate in the LABVERDE residence in the Reserva Adolpho Ducke, in Manaus, and will return in 2018 for new residence, offices, char-la in the INPA library (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisa da Amazônia) and the exhibition “Biblioteca do Casarão – map aberto à viagem” in the Casarão De Ideias. In 2019 they will present the installation “RESERVA – O abismo não us separaciones, ele nos cerca” and will launch the book of the same name in the Espaço Cultural Porto Seguro in São Paulo, as part of the exhibition Novas Efervescências.
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