Once upon a time a forest

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This video was edited with footage shot 16 mm in the early 1960s. It show a recently flooded area of forest due to the construction of a hydroelectric power plant. The flooding of the forest is part of my childhood memories, and all the monkeys desperate on tree tops. Nowadays in the Amazon Forest there are 27 hydroelectric power plants with government plans to build even more. Some lakes flooded 3.000 square kilometres of Forest, so we can imagine the extension of the damage.

Bio

Renata Padovan is a Brazilian artist living and working in São Paulo, Brasil. Graduated with a BA degree in Social Communications from FAAP São Paulo, later followed by a MA Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design in London, 2001. She has participated in several artist in residency programs: 2018 | Labverde, Amazon, Brazil; Residência Epecuén, Argentina 2016| Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, South Korea; 2014| GCC, South Korea; 2013| JKSD, Slovenia; 2012| Arctic Circle, Norway; THAV, Taiwan; 2009| NES, Iceland; 2008| Over the Fence, International winter workshop, Finse, Norway; 2004| Nagasawa art park, Japan; 2001| Braziers International Artists Workshop, Oxfordshire, UK; 1999| The Banff Centre for the arts, Canada.
Her work has been exhibited in galleries, institutions and museums in Brazil and abroad.
Recent solo shows include 2019 | Irreversible, Paiol da Cultura INPA, Manaus, Amazon; 2017| Terreno, CasaNova Arte e Cultura, São Paulo; 2014| Um dia depois do outro, Caixa Cultural Brasilia, Brazil; 2013| Xingu - Kapelica Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 2011| Objects of Forgetting, Metales Pesados, Santiago, Chile; Vão (Gap) Baró Galeria, São Paulo. Among the recent group exhibitions: 2019 | How to talk with trees, Z42, Rio de Janeiro; Arte 57 | Foto + Casanova, Arte57, São Paulo, Brazil 2018| #iff2018 – Recorte da coleção Dulce e João Carlos de Figueiredo Ferraz, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Ribeirão Preto; Las dos Caras de la Montña, Santiago, Chile; Arquitectura de la desolación, Ambos Mundos, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2017| New Latin Wave, Brooklin Bazaar, Brooklin, NY; Topografias Intermitentes, Hilo Gallery, Buenos Aires; Topografias Intermitentes, CasaNova Arte, São Paulo; videOFFormes BRAZIL, Clermont Short Film Festival; 2016| Embedded South(s), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Step Down!, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, South Korea 2015| Renata Padovan in conversation with Gian Spina, CasaNova Arte, São Paulo; Marker, Dubai, Arab Emirates; 2014| Gyeonggi Creation Center, South Korea; Transborda – Mostra internacional de cinema experimental e vídeo arte, Alcobaça, Portugal; La Bienal del fin del Mundo, Mar del Plata, Argentina 2013| Projections Program, La Otra Bienal, Bogotá, Colombia; Here we are and from here we go, Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, Ciudad de Mexico; Refractive Distances – Everything Familiar Becomes Poetic, Centre for Curatorial Studies, School of Philosophy & Art History, University of Essex; Vaivém, Sesc Pinheiros, São Paulo.

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