Pivô presents the installation ‘The Monolith and the Sentinel’ by visual artist Ana Mazzei, inaugurating the program ‘Hello. Again’, for which artists occupy the ground floor with newly commissioned projects.

The central column of Pivô’s reception –one of the supporting bases for Copan building – is the point of departure for the artist to construct a ‘monolith’ similar to a stage set object. These large blocks of stone invariably have a mythic aura and are associated with a notion of permanence; its materiality cannot be unnoticed. The monolith, being a monument or a mystical element, involves and fascinates those who approach it.

This ‘fundamental stone’ constructed by the artist will be guarded daily by a ‘sentinel’. A figure that protects and keeps the monolith, contributes to the creation of a mysterious environment in her surroundings. By composing these two characters – the monolith and the sentinel – Mazzei disarticulates the habitual dynamics of the reception space.

As one enters this kind of portal between the streets and Pivô, the visitor is intrigued to let go of their daily experience inasmuch as they approximate themselves to this rock, which the artist attributes ‘transcendental properties’. Passers by in the inner streets of Copan and Pivô’s public are invited to an exercise of fantastic narrative creation proposed by Ana Mazzei.

The monolith is only a front door.

Ana Mazzei

São Paulo, 1980. Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

Ana Mazzei has a B.A in Fine Arts from the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP SP) and a M.A. in Visual Poetics from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP! SP). She has participated in several collective exhibitions such as the Salão Paranaense at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea (MAC/PR), curated by Lisette Lagnado and Paulo Herkenhoff . She was part of the Independent Programme at Escola São Paulo (PIESP), directed by Adriano Pedrosa, and participated in the House of Art / Red Bull Residency Programme, curated by Luisa Duarte, and of the exhibitions Pré-Nome and Nichi Nichi Kore Ko Nichi at Phosphorus, also in São Paulo. In Paris she presented two solo exhibitions: Couvert de son manteau couleur safran at the independent space La Maudite, and Et nous, nous marchons inconnus at Galerie Emmanuel Hervé. This year she has been selected for the Centro Cultural São Paulo Exhibition Programme, and will participate of the 46th edition of the Anual de Artes at FAAP! SP as Guest Artist. Mazzei is also a member and founder of Teatro Facada.