Exhibition Slide Show
Des-Habitat
Paulo Tavares
Des-Habitat interrogates the ways in which indigenous arts and crafts appeared within discourses and imaginaries of modernity through the lens of Habitat, the arts and design magazine created by architect Lina Bo Bardi in 1950. Instead of the content shown in the images of indigenous objects, the project interrogates the context from which they emerged as signifiers of modernity in Habitat, examining how Habitat itself, by virtue of its language and visual design, functioned as framing device that concealed that context and its inherent colonial structure.
Des-Habitat
Paulo Tavares, 2018
Installation – publication, TV monitor, video, furniture designed by architect Lina Bo Bardi
Courtesy of the artist
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