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Search of poetry

Thiago Antonio e Débora Guimarães

Search for Poetry, 2011
Glass bottles with poems
Varied dimensions

This work was presented at the collective exhibition Digital Urbano #08 in October 2011 at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. It consisted of approximately 350 glass bottles floating in the pool. Each bottle was carefully prepared and contained texts from different poets, thinkers, and writers, bringing a diversity of voices and perspectives.
To interact with the artwork, a slide projector was installed nearby. Visitors were invited to pick up the floating bottles and choose the verses that resonated with them. They could then recombine these verses in the projection of the slide projector, creating hybrid poems that resulted from their own choices and imagination.
This interaction opened the way for endless exchanges of poetry. Each selected combination of verses by a visitor became a new poetic creation. This created an interactive and participatory dynamic, where visitors were both spectators and actors, contributing to the construction of a collaborative poetic space.

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