Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain
Two Voices
2022
Two Voices (Stoker-Sebald), 2022
Digital print on 80g Kozo Awagami paper
120 x 80 cm
Unique
Two Voices (Arp—Schwitters), 2022
Digital print on 80g Kozo Awagami paper
120 x 80 cm
Unique
Two Voices (Hermans—Verne), 2022
Digital print on 80g Kozo Awagami paper
120 x 80 cm
Unique
Eu 3.500 each (excluding VAT and shipping)
Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain
Born in 1974 and 1973, Caxias do Sul, Brazil
Live and work in Paris
Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain adopt language as the subject and object of their work. A poetics that presents the world seen from its own codes of perception and understanding. Their largely conceptual works employ the use of sound, graphics, text, video, and other traditional art mediums within their installations. They represent a rigorous use of formalism and a refined use of visual and written poetry.
Their work reflects their joint fascination with the human ability to contemplate the world around them and beyond. Imbued with scientific, mathematical and literary references, their work applies themes of time, space, memory and the infinite beyond.
The textual pieces were part of a performance with a comprehensive staging environment in which several related works came together under the title Two Voices. The project constituted a framework within Tlön Projects' Satellite Programme.
Two Voices expresses the cyclical relationship of the sun and moon. This black & white animation was projected onto the opposing eastern and western walls of the exhibition space. Sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset. One day per minute. 365 minutes equal a year. At the bottom of each projection days, hours and minutes indicated the passing of time at the artwork’s accelerated rate.
30 minutes of this work — the lunar month of December — constituted the score for two actors who voiced the solar-lunar dialogue into words by reading excerpts discussing one or the other. The lecture’s duration was determined by the heavenly bodies’ cycles. As these are asynchronous, there were moments at which the actors read aloud alone, moments of vocal overlay and moments of silence.
Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain realised three large prints for the presentation, related to the three performance days 12.09, 12.10, 12.11: textual excerpts from the performance with the duration of one day transferred to a sheet of Kozo Awagani paper. Featuring characters instead of minutes, as in the animation Two Voices. One day equals 1,440 characters. The sun occupies the centre of the paper situating the moment it rises. The moon has been printed atop the sun in italics. Depending on the season, the two coincide and the moon is situated above or below the sun.