NÓ NA GARGANTA

2022, single-channel video, HD, color, sound, 38’

Courtesy of the artist, and Fondazione In Between Art Film

Commissioned and produced by Fondazione in Between Art Film for the Brazilian Pavilion, Biennale Arte 2022

JONATHAS DE ANDRADE

Jonathas de Andrade (1982, Brazil) uses installation, photography and video to explore the power dynamics and conflicts of Brazil, especially of its Northeast Region and Recife, where the artist lives and works, in light of the consequences that colonialism and slavery have on the country’s labor conditions and national identity.

The video Nó Na Garganta [Knot in the Throat] invited a group of young people working in a private zoo to interact with snakes. The images of quiet and close interaction between species gain narrative intensity with zooms into various parts of the body of the performers, such as eyes, ears, mouths, feet, and noses, thus emphasizing the senses through which humans interact with their surroundings. The montage becomes progressively agile and culminates in documentary scenes of ecological disasters, which seem to remind us of humanity’s disconnection from nature.