Pivô welcomes the project ‘Corpos d’Água’ by artist Erica Ferrari, supported by the Secretary of Culture of São Paulo, through a ProAC announcement. The title of the work indicates a characteristic that can be viewed as symbolic of São Paulo’s structural situation: the condition of its rivers. Fundamental to the foundation of the original village and decisive in the growth of the city that it would become, these rivers have undergone drastic alterations, just like the urban network that surrounds them. Starting from this initial theme, to consider this landscape in which we live is to ponder São Paulo’s historical and political complexity.

Erica intends to focus her study on the city’s central region, investigating mainly the area’s architecture and its ramifications in the lives of its inhabitants. The artist begins her project in the Pivô Research setting, a platform for the development of projects and artistic experimentation associated with Pivô, which will culminate in a public presentation of the works created in an exhibition running from August 2^nd to 30^th, 2014.

“Project realized with support from the Secretary of Culture of the State of São Paulo through the Program of Cultural Action, PROAC – Announcement no. 22 – 2013”