Artist Response to PN15: Temporary Earth Drawing
\nRaphaela Melsohn
\nQuerido H\u00e9lio, I made a subterranean floorplan
\nOn view June 17 – June 22, 2022<\/p>\n
Artist Conversation with Raphaela Melsohn
\nQuerido Helio, how can I translate you?<\/p>\n
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 | 5:30 pm, duration 45 mins
\nin conjunction with Summer Solstice
\nRaphaela Melsohn\u2019s earth drawing in Socrates Park consists of marked lines in the ground that expand H\u00e9lio Oiticica\u2019s maquette through Socrates. The lines are made with two procedures, digging and adding soil. The dug lines bring the soil to light, making it visible, referring to the idea of subterranean architecture. The added soil harkens back to Oiticica\u2019s 1978 earthwork Contra-B\u00f3lide (Devolver a terra a terra)\u00a0[To return earth to the earth]. Melsohn\u2019s lines differentiate the surface for walking and create a floor plan of soil and grass for our bodies to go through. They also emboss the ground and slightly shift the soil\u2019s topography. The mark-making process by digging lines connects with Oiticica\u2019s architectural translation of the Subterranean Tropicalia Project maquette. The lines follow decisions made to make the architectural piece in scale, such as the curved walls, measurements, materials, and shapes in Oiticica\u2019s work.
\nAbout the Artist I\u2019m interested in constructing environments from and to our bodies, in opposition to conforming our bodies to an ergonometric standard space. I believe in constant fluxes, holes, and organic shapes that intend to break the space as it is and break our bodies as we normalize them.<\/p>\n
Among recent exhibitions \u201cPor muito tempo acreditei ter sonhado que era livre\u201d Arte Atual (Tomie Ohtake Institute, 2022), Columbia MFA Thesis Show (Wallach Gallery, 2022), \u201cBiblioteca Floresta\u201d (SESC Belenzinho, 2021), Eco Shifters (Fondazione La Fabbrica del Cioccolato,\u00a02019). Solo shows \u201cwearing a trap\u201d (casamata, 2016), and \u201cinvestigations in VIDEO: register, displacement of view and WAYS OF THINKING\u201d (MIS, 2016).<\/p>\n
Image credit: Noara Quintana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7398,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"event-category":[],"class_list":["post-7397","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-category?post=7397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}