Sabrina Barrios: talking process

Brazilian artist Sabrina Barrios opens her studio space to share her process and the ideas behind the work.

Music by Matt Herron

Living Library

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Living Library | 2017 | Acrylic, fluorescent ink and mixed media on canvas | 58×38″
to be exhibited at The Bronx Museum biennial 2017 (Jul–Oct, NY)

The Earth Experiment

Crossing a portal into a parallel universe

The Earth Experiment on view at No.4 Studio (NY) until May 14th

Ground Control–Arts in Bushwick review

Interview with the artists and review of the show “Ground Control”
http://artsinbushwick.interchang.es/2017/04/24/three-parallel-worlds-at-no-4-studio/

The Earth Experiment

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Site-specific installation on view at No.4 Studio
April 14th–May 14th
Fri–Sun 1–6pm
361 Stagg St./204, Brooklyn, NY

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The Earth Experiment combines ancient knowledge with conspiracy theories. I’m looking into Maya, Egyptian and Sumerian cultures, Greek mythology and internet whistleblowers who claim to have worked at CERN and have hidden information on NASA’s secret space programs. I’m also referring to Plato’s allegory of the cave when including the observer’s shadows in the work.

There are many layers of information attached to this piece. I use visually simple symbols (sacred geometry) to tell a story, but they are charged with meaning, and if you see the work in the flesh, if you are present, you FEEL it (I like to compare it to a dream, in which you can’t always verbalize your experiences, but you often remember their feeling).

Overall, I can say that The Earth Experiment places the viewer inside a matrix (or a bubble), that depicts a dome of invisible energy and represents the reality in which we are stuck in. We perceive nothing outward this one dimension. Outside of this bubble (and out of our reach) there are floating hieroglyphics that make up a totem (or an obelisk), that is a symbol of power and points to the ones in charge, the ones that control the rest of the world. Because whoever controls the information that comes to us, well, controls us.

The Gap–Stories to burn after reading

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The Gap is a series of 2 mysterious stories that shake our ideas of reality: The Inner Earth and Artificial Moon.