In 2017, when we moved to the Mata Atlántica jungle in Brazil, and started cohabiting with the frantic wildlife of the area, we decided to start exploring the existing tense relation that human presence imposed to natural habitat in a country that was about to burn down both literal and metaphorically
With semi-performative experiments and the combination of cultural material (like books, magazines, archival photography) with the surrounding wildlife, we have been constructing narratives that illustrate the current economic and political context using nocturnal animals as improvised actors. Boa Noite Povo is a mix of archival imagery, directed animal action, night photography and plastic intervention of ephemeral pieces that show the complexity of the moment and the resonance with the past.
However, this confirmation of the cycle scheme and its alternation, this reliving of past experiences, as if the lessons of history had faded, merely confirm a human nature that, as frustrating as it may seem, exists and stands stronger than ever. The more cultural we get the more natural we perform, the more elaborated we are in our conflicts and structures, the more directly we are actually aiming at satisfying our basic instincts... Unable, as we are demonstrating, to question our unconscious and thoughtless nature, the classical debate Nature vs Culture seems more nuanced but also more necessary than ever.