Pacto Visual 5
Editorial, Photography
Pacto Visual 5 is a publication built from the encounter between the global contemporary-art circuit and the local context of the visual arts, investigating how relationships are formed through another person’s gaze. The publication connects artists with different approaches through a gesture of nomination: each invited artist chooses another to join the conversation. The choices create pairs, but not closed relationships. Through interviews with the eight figures, the book traces affinities, tensions, influences, and distances that run through each poetic universe and its ties to Brazil. The result is a field of relationships formed by expanding displacements. The editorial project follows this idea of exchange and encounter, leading to a book that understands editing as a way to broaden connections and reveal possibilities. It shows that the pact in the title takes place precisely in the act of looking through another person’s eyes and discovering new forms of closeness.
FORMS brings culture, science, education, and activism together to co-create experiences and rehearse possible futures. Collaboration and collective intelligence generate sounds, colors, materials, and forms for an identity in continuous construction, capable of evolving in dialogue with each experience.
Leston investigates the relationships between sound, image, code, and permanence. In dialogue with his research, we developed a visual identity and website that bring the system to the foreground. There is an interval in the gap between error, the blue screen, and code, and it is within this unstable space, between control and failure, that the project comes to life.
An engineer, urban planner, feminist, and key figure in the making of MAM Rio, Carmen Portinho made the act of designing an instrument of social transformation. The exhibition tells her story and brings together works that reveal the breadth of her thinking.
Created by RADDAR for the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Our Second Skin transforms more than 2,200 pieces of glass-manufacturing waste into a translucent skin. We developed the project’s visual identity and poster, seeking to graphically represent this relationship between transparency, opacity, surface, architecture, and transformation.
