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Joao Villas

Born 1979 in São Paulo, Brazil.

I currently live and work in London, UK.

www.joaovillas.art

Ins: jojo.villas

Plan8t Online AIR SPRING 2020 - WEEK 7

PLAN8T 2020 AIR “digital humanity”

One Too Many | 一以概之
Mural Print

Floor #3: Current Phenomenon & Visual System

Pic of exhibition: jojo's CP

The earth’s circumference is 40,075 kilometres.

The iTunes library has 26million songs.

1 billion animals were killed by the Australian bushfire.

BP estimates that the world’s oil reserves amount up to 1.73 trillion barrels.

World population is 7.53 billion people.

When I was born there was 3.2 billion less people in the world.

This is all too abstract.

This work is a mural of a scanned photo-etching print where - from up close - 1,000,000 people can be seen with the naked eye. But from the distance, they are texture in the print.


Placeholders | 占位符
Video Projection

Floor #3: Current Phenomenon & Visual System

An imaginary space created to invite the viewer to join an ongoing ordination of possible narratives.

20,000 minutes of images recorded

90 days of recordings

4 Terabytes of images compiled into one work

There is a commonly held concept that artworks enunciate one or multiple narratives. But there is a complementary idea which says that narratives are made of a combination of specific relationships among its disparate elements. Some are products of the artwork itself and, therefore, intentionally created by the artist. And some - more importantly - result from the personal contributions of the viewer and have the ability to change the nature of the artwork (as far as the perspective of the viewer is concerned).


Floor #1: Challenge Paper