With a BA in Arts from FAAP, obtained in 1999, Motta and Lima have been working together since then, developing research exploring different technologies in works where concept and technique are determined together and often place the relation with the audience in the forefront. They have participated in various collective shows in Brazil and abroad, such as the 1st Bienal Fin del Mundo, Argentina (2007); the 10th Havana Biennial (2009); and A Arte e a Ciência: Nós entre os extremos, at Instituto Tomie Ohtake, in São Paulo (2015). Some of their individual exhibitions are In.Situ.Ações, at MAMAM no Pátio, in Recife (2011); and Sopro, at CCBB, in Rio de Janeiro (2012). They live and work in São Paulo.
2005, video installation, variable dimensions
courtesy of Galeria Vermelho and the artists
Yano-a was developed based on the appropriation of a black and white photograph of a burned Yanomami hut, taken in 1976 by Claudia Andujar. The artists sought to update the moment in which the image was recorded by analogically re-creating the moment of the fire and the heat refractions based on the projection of the photograph through a layer of water. In a di erent composition, a projector adds to the original image the animated record of flames from the photograms that documented the fire, which places us exactly in the moment the hut burns down.
