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Mabe Beth么nico: Lessons From Another World
Mabe Beth么nico (Belo Horizonte, 1966) works with the limits between documentation and construction, showing how information can be constructed and reworked continuously, observing how institutions operate by storing and circulating information. The transmission of knowledge has always been present in the artist's work, and for her new exhibition at Galeria Mar铆lia Razuk, she refers to pedagogical materials such as blackboards, school slides and the book, while alluding to the teacher himself. In this new series of works, in which she assumes pedagogical supports as vehicles for revisiting colonial history, Mabe also reflects on current means and discourses. The result of this work can be seen by the public starting this Saturday, April 2, at the show Lessons of Another World.
Artist, researcher and teacher, Mabe Beth么nico is part of the generation that grew up during the Brazilian military dictatorship, and saw, as a result of this period, the school, formal education, being used as an effective ideological device to hinder critical reflections. In addition to thinking about the brands and discourses of this period, analyzes are added on what it is like to experience the political and educational scenario that the country is going through today.
In the series Educate in Relationships (2022), made up of 22 photographic prints, Mabe brings together slides of didactic support on various topics such as history, geography, botany, and others - and gives the material a new meaning. Alluding to the reconfiguration of knowledge, she creates slides that can facilitate challenging and necessary lessons on the complex relationships between humans and other animals, plants and geological elements. In the video Betty Bloomsfield (2019), a collaboration between Mabe Beth么nico and Hannah Stewart, a puppet takes the place of a teacher and, based on appropriate and reconstituted texts, elaborates, not without difficulty, on anthropocene issues. For the video Mountains Thrashing Out, the artist cuts out the smoke printed in a book about volcanoes. The paper becomes a strange support for this material, which is in turn reincorporated into the book, as the video is shown in reverse, the smoke being repositioned by the scissors.
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Mabe Beth么nico (Belo Horizonte, 1966) works with the limits between documentation and construction, showing how information can be constructed and reworked continuously, observing how institutions operate by storing and circulating information. The transmission of knowledge has always been present in the artist's work, and for her new exhibition at Galeria Mar铆lia Razuk, she refers to pedagogical materials such as blackboards, school slides and the book, while alluding to the teacher himself. In this new series of works, in which she assumes pedagogical supports as vehicles for revisiting colonial history, Mabe also reflects on current means and discourses. The result of this work can be seen by the public starting this Saturday, April 2, at the show Lessons of Another World.
Artist, researcher and teacher, Mabe Beth么nico is part of the generation that grew up during the Brazilian military dictatorship, and saw, as a result of this period, the school, formal education, being used as an effective ideological device to hinder critical reflections. In addition to thinking about the brands and discourses of this period, analyzes are added on what it is like to experience the political and educational scenario that the country is going through today.
In the series Educate in Relationships (2022), made up of 22 photographic prints, Mabe brings together slides of didactic support on various topics such as history, geography, botany, and others - and gives the material a new meaning. Alluding to the reconfiguration of knowledge, she creates slides that can facilitate challenging and necessary lessons on the complex relationships between humans and other animals, plants and geological elements. In the video Betty Bloomsfield (2019), a collaboration between Mabe Beth么nico and Hannah Stewart, a puppet takes the place of a teacher and, based on appropriate and reconstituted texts, elaborates, not without difficulty, on anthropocene issues. For the video Mountains Thrashing Out, the artist cuts out the smoke printed in a book about volcanoes. The paper becomes a strange support for this material, which is in turn reincorporated into the book, as the video is shown in reverse, the smoke being repositioned by the scissors.
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