JANAINA WAGNER
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I am molten matter sliding from the core of Earth to tell you interior things - Galeria Sardenberg (São Paulo, BR)
Quando o segundo sol chegar / um cometa nos teus olhos - Planetário do Ibirapuera (São Paulo, BR)
Quebrante - OCA - 14th Bienal de Arquitetura de São Paulo (São Paulo, BR)
Curupira e a máquina do destino - COP 30 - Museu do Amanhã (Rio de Janeiro, BR)
Manos Negativas, manos kefzeadas, Quando o segundo sol chegar / um cometa nos teus olhos, Quebrante, Curupira e a máquina do destino - Le Fresnoy-studio national des arts contemporains (Turcoing, FR)
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2025 Sala de Vídeo Janaina Wagner – Museu de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo, BR)
A comet in your eyes – Sursock Museum (Beirut, LB)
2024 Quando o segundo sol chegar (Cometa) – Centro Cultural do Cariri (Crato, BR)
2023 Cinema Caverna – Lanterna Mágica – Projeto Vênus (São Paulo, BR)
Baleia Fantasma – Pivô (São Paulo, BR)
2015 Decupagem/ Crônica de um final anunciado - Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto (Ribeirão Preto, BR)
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2025 At the End of a World - Färgfabriken Konsthall (Stockholm, SE)
2024 Era uma vez: história do céu e da terra – Pinacoteca de São Paulo (São Paulo, BR)
Ensaios de Uma Coleção – Galeria Municipal do Porto (Porto, PT)
Summertime – SUPERCOLLIDER - Brand Library (Los Angeles, USA)
Imaginar futuros com gestos silenciosos – Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (Montevideo, UY)
2023 22ª Bienal SESC Videobrasil - SESC 24 de Maio (São Paulo, BR)
2022 Ópera Citoplasmática – Museu Oscar Niemeyer (Curitiba, BR)
Aliens are temporary - Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien (Berlin, DE)
2021 Thinking beyond: moving-images for a post-pandemic world – Manifattura Tabacchi (Florence, IT)
Cuando no hay sombra es mediodía - Nube Gallery (Santa Cruz, BO)
A natural history of ruins - Pivô (São Paulo, BR)
2020 Casa Carioca – MAR Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, BR)
2019 Panorama 21 - Les revenants - Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains (Turcoing, FR)
2018 Festival Mondes Possibles - Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers (Paris, FR)
(São Paulo, BR)
Ensaio de Tração - Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo, BR)
2016 Permanências e destruições - Torre H (Rio de Janeiro, BR)
Bolsa Pampulha - Museu de Arte da Pampulha (Belo Horizonte, BR)
2015 Hipótese e horizonte - Observatório - (São Paulo, BR)
2014 4º Prêmio EDP nas Artes – Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo, BR)
Estado de Suspensão – Coletor (São Paulo, BR)
FRANKENSTEIN COW (GREEN FLESH, GREEN FLASH), 10’ | 2021
Video Installation – Projection and Vertical LED Panel (250 x 150 cm) + Painted 16mm film and Digital
Produced by Gasworks London and Triangle Network
Mary Wolestonecraft is a feminist activist and writer. Mother of Mary Shelley, she died shortly after giving birth to her. Growing up, Shelley would go to her tomb stone and tell stories to it. The remains of Wollstonecraft are no longer buried here: they were removed with the disruption of the railway. The stone that Mary Shelley used to tell stories to is still the same. The installation portrays a tender Frankenstein Nelore cow as the main character of the solastalgia of the present time. In 1816, the sky across Europe turned red thanks to the eruption of Mount Tambora. The romantic and surreal atmospheres of J.M. Turner, John Crome and Caspar D. Friedrich are the portrait and documents of this era. It was in that twilight summer that a nineteen-years-old girl named Mary Shelley wrote the first science fiction in history, about a tender, lonely animated meat machine: Frankenstein – or the modern Prometheus. In 2022, however, the volcano became human-kind, and Frankenstein, a cow. History tells that whoever has the good fortune to see a Green Flash will have a great change in his life. With the work I wanted to give the Frankenstein Nelore cow a Green Flash, finally breaking her cyclical destiny.