After presenting Estudo de Caso (2018) at the 12th Gwangju Biennale, where the artist balances two emblematic columns of Brazilian architecture – that of the Alvorada Palace by Oscar Niemeyer supported by the Colubandê Farm column in the state of Rio de Janeiro, a landmark of the colonial architecture – now, Lais Myrrha occupies auroras with a new step in the column of Alvorada. Unlike the Gwangju version, where the columns had a scale of 1: 1, here the pieces conform to space, maintaining a gigantic dimension.
Study on a built future starts with the artist’s interest in architecture – mainly the relations with modern Brazilian architecture – but also, as is often the case in her works, a dialectical correspondence between constructive power and ruins. It is evident that the work understands the relation of architecture as forms of power and domination, and projects a historical dimension in the formation of a “national identity”.
It is now possible to imagine what kind of future is being formed along these lines and if this construction is no longer, since its foundation, an unsustainable project.
