The set of sculptures transforms natural elements into industrial ones and vice versa, creating surreal hybrids that fuse the utopian ideals from the past and contemporary dystopian reality. A tractor engine is transmuted into plants, animals and other organic forms, which look as much like shelters as traps. A man in a suit searches for water, even though his feet are in it. Hulačová's work is based on the ideal of industrialization and collectivization of agriculture at the beginning of the Soviet era, which contributed to contemporary social and environmental devastation, and in its interweaving of the natural and the technological it produces a paradoxical impression of hope. The work was exhibited in the café on the 11th floor of Sesc 24 de Maio.
Interviews
Image and sound: B Paolucci and Julia Gil
Editing: B Paolucci and Julia Gil
Recording of the works
Image: Helena Wolfenson, Marcos Yoshi and Tom Butcher Cury
Sound: Tomás Franco
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