LEANDRO
CARDOSO
NEREFUH
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ARCHIVO BANANA
Live presentation 35’
Festival Sesc VideoBrasil . São Paulo 2011
also at Rietveld Academie . Amsterdam 2009
Lines of argument:
* the banana as an index of global periphery (nature as periphery)
* penetration, indoctrination, domestication - the banana psychologised
* slippery potential - the banana as a resource of primitivity
* State, work, race and banana republics
* exaltation of the good savage or the bananero hero –
towards a tropical social realism
ARCHIVO BANANA
From early drawings of the New World to until very recently, the banana
caused both laughter and uneasiness in the rational body. Conversely, it
composed a tropical vocabulary that enabled strategies of cultural specificity and autonomy. The Archivo Banana is a collection of artefacts that
perform this history of symbolic and actual power.
video screen shots:
top right: René Descartes presents newly arrived tropical fruits to
one incredulous French messenger in The Netherlands, around 1630.
bottom right: an allegorical encounter between an African king and
the Brazilian modernist Tarsila do Amaral in her Paris studio, 1920’s.
bottom left: video collage on a banana production line in Guatemala.
ARCHIVO BANANA
Examples from the archivo’s series of collages and animated gifs
ARCHIVO BANANA
c-print . 30x30cm . 2011
UMBELINA’S CAVE
Installation . Workshop
with support of the residency program Impakt Foundation and Setup
Utrecht 2012
in collaboration with Caetano Carvalho
Appropriating the cave allegory as an environment filled with flickering
images - unrealistic and faulty representations of the real and creating an
immersive environment with projections, screens, objects and decor, we
incorporated the ‘nature’ of animated GIFs in a performative and even ritualistic dimension in which conceptions of nature, culture, and technology
are in play.
Installation and workshop
in progress . partial view
UMBELINA’S CAVE
My legs bite, I found our cave! There’s a gypsum fossil in there and an
animated gif that has been looping for 7,000,000,000 years. Even though
no carbon 14
determination was possible. Contrary to what people think, humans
evolved in the steppe and its caves while the ape evolved in the forest.
Every prophet in their own cave: Plato, Zarathustra, Umbelina Valeria,
Mike Kelley… and us. Mankind developed its constructivist impetus in the
cave. The cave is not only a classical philosophical trope but also the human cradle. It is there that we find the most ancient inscriptions. Whilst
the gypsum 3D print dries THE HUMAN WAS MADE OUT OF CLAY WAS
MADE”
Installation . partial view
UMBELINA’S CAVE
My Leg’s Bite . 3D printed sculpture with projected background
reference material for sculpture
UMBELINA’S CAVE
Australopithecus meditates on the breakdown of office-life . clay, computer and 3D aGif
THE OATH OF MONTE SACRO, a pocket epic
Live Presentation 25’
Miranda House . London 2010
also at Museo Reina Sofia . Madrid 2010
in collaboration with Greg Vamvakas, Andrew Vernede and Nicolas Nestoret
The work consists of a series of formal translations of a historical text
to narrative, music composition, scenic painting, video, printed material
and performance.
The classical grammar has had a central role in formulating ideas of
enlightened revolutionary democracy in America between the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. The sublime Roman ruins were an ideal
backdrop for the apparition of a historical leader with messianic vocation.
The romantic rebel S.R. - Simon Rodriguez- tells the tale of The Oath of
Monte Sacro, in which El Libertador enters the stage of world history.
THE OATH OF MONTE SACRO, a pocket epic
Video 19’ stereo 16/9 HD . 2011
JURAMENTO NO ARAXÁ SAGRADO,
queria incendiar Roma mas o fósforo tava molhado
Solo Exhibition . partial view
CCSP . São Paulo 2010-2011
It concerns the formal invention of a dramatic space - monumental and recurrent - which is crucial for the officialoid representation of a ‘Spirit of State’ as opposed to ‘the body of the people’.
The exhibits have the double function of works and props for a series of talks on site - above the
Cultural Centre’s library.
Silver plaque 3x5cm
“[...] toying with elements of historical memory, Leandro creates a series of situations that seem to test the capacity of a
political text to monumentalise speech. Preying on the official
cellebrations of the Bicentennial of Latin America’s independence, this exhibition comes across as a critique of those very
notions of identity and history that are being commemorated
elsewhere.”
Fernanda Pitta
JURAMENTO NO ARAXÁ SAGRADO,
queria incendiar Roma mas o fósforo tava molhado
JURAMENTO NO ARAXÁ SAGRADO,
queria incendiar Roma mas o fósforo tava molhado
Banners El and Ai de mim, Stigmata! . made in collaboration with the artisan Gemio Flores in Oruro, Bolivia
JURAMENTO NO ARAXÁ SAGRADO,
queria incendiar Roma mas o fósforo tava molhado
CIVIC AND PUBLIC SCULPTURES (built or planned)
Monument to Public Domain . c-print . variable size . 2012
CIVIC AND PUBLIC SCULPTURES (built or planned)
Lectern on 24” sleek wheels all terrain PA system optional
(after Wodiczko) . 210x85x75cm . 2010
in colaboration with Thales de Azevedo
This series of built or planned sculptures work either as actual structures
(built or planned) or images of found structures that have specific formal
sculptural quality.
Memorial Lectern original Niemeyer’s design for the Latin American Memorial . 90x260x260cm (scale 1:3) . 2010
in colaboration with Thales de Azevedo
CIVIC AND PUBLIC SCULPTURES (built or planned)
Sacada Popular instalada para comitiva - direita . wood and metal
Toldo Latino . cobertor, metal, pvc, arame
Proposed monument of the city of Sum Paulu celebrating the peak of 100
million inhabitants . steel frame
Social Purpose
SOCIAL SCULPTURES
Pomelo Squeezer Bank of England . 2007
Barbecue . 2007
LATIN AMERICAN POLITICAL CHANTS
Workshop 60’ and Audio CD
as part of the Talk Show . ICA . London 2009
in collaboration with Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre
The workshop is rooted in Chilean politics of the 1970s, and invites its participants to engage with the context through their sound qualitiy. In 1970,
Salvador Allende was the first Marxist on the American continent to become an elected national leader, and before his socialist government was
prematurely ended, Chile saw a flowering of the culture of street politics,
including political speeches, chants, mural, radio, 16mm film.
POLITICAL CHANTS FOR THE FUTURE / FZOOOOOOOSH PHHHHHHT VATHROOOOM!
Sound Installation 6 channels
Manufacturing Today . group show
Dora Kultur Bunker . Trondheim 2010
in colaboration with Matt Lewis
The ‘culture bunker’ in Trondheim was originally planned as an attack
platform against Britain, attacking by sea from above with submarines
and torpedos. We used the 6x4x83-metre torpedo hall to play two diffrent
sound pieces combined. Edited clips of Political Chants from archival material and helicopter sounds Matt recorded at various rural and urban areas
including near to air bases used by the Royal Air Force.
MAR DEL PARAGUAY also Museo Tardio del Mar del Paraguay (in development)
with the support of the residency program Triple A . Paraguay 2012
JA.CA., Belo Horizonte and Centro Cultural España . São Paulo
in colaboration with Luvier Casali, Valeria Anzuate and Martin Barea
Report on the War of Paraguay (1863-1870) following a group expedition
from Ñeembucu to Cerro Corá in four weeks only, searching for residues
of history. Thesis: the desire for one’s own sea motivates the war, following
a historical flow towards East (Atlantic), as registered in folk tales and the
old cartographies. And there is counter-flow towards West, conquest of the
West (guarany land), which is terra nullius anyways.
Field research in Paraguay on threes intertwined sections:
Sección de la Triple Alianza - war
Sección de la Mercosunga . sea and waters
Sección de Historia Natural - nature and technology
MAR DEL PARAGUAY . Sección de Historia Natural
Tipo popular de paraguayo
Tipo popular de paraguaya . typewriting on photocopy
MAR DEL PARAGUAY . Sección de Historia Natural
The secret history of Branislava Susnik, an ethnographer among the
guarany . photo collage . 50x30cm
MAR DEL PARAGUAY . Sección de la Mercosunga
Mercosul (regional union agreement involving BR, PY, UY, AR, BO, VZ) + Sunga - swim suit
Mercosunga - regional campaign river, sea, waterfall, clean waters for all!
MAR DEL PARAGUAY . Sección de la Triple Alianza
Paraguayan women for repopulating the country after the war
War practice . feltpen on photocopy
MAR DEL PARAGUAY . Sección de la Triple Alianza
London Carapé . CD cover
ARTIST’S BIO
Leandro Cardoso Nerefuh (1975)
lives and works in Sum Paulu . Brazil
Graduated in Fine Art and History of Art and holds a MRes in Humanities
and Culture (University of London), Leandro works with formal translations
of historical material. He has recently presented projects at the XXX São
Paulo Biennial; Festival Sesc VideoBrasil; CCSP, São Paulo; Reina Sofia
Museum, Madrid; ICA, London; CCCB, Barcelona. He was awarded travel
grants by the Brazilian Ministry of Culture (2012 and 2010) and the Award
for Exhibition Abroad by the Sao Paulo Biennial Foundation (2010). He is
also the founder of PPUB, a political party active in Brazil, Paraguay and
Uruguay. www.nerefuh.com.br