Rodrigo Braga's first exhibition in France
Inaugurated on the occasion of Nuit Blanche 2016, Rodrigo Braga (born in 1976 in Manaus, Brazil, lives in Rio de Janeiro) invests the basin of the esplanade located between the Palais de Tokyo and the Museum of Modern Art of the City from Paris. Its monumental installation reveals, in the heart of the capital, the tangible traces of the prehistoric sea which covered the territory some 45 million years ago.
The relations of communion and conflict between man and wild nature are at the heart of Rodrigo Braga's performances and installations. Since the beginning of the 2000s, his films and photographs bear witness to the actions and interventions he most often carries out in the middle of nature.
Invited to capture the mineral landscape of the Palais de Tokyo esplanade, Rodrigo Braga creates a landlocked sea, from which limestone rocks emerge. These sand-colored stones, whose appearance seems familiar to us, come from ROCAMAT's Savonnières quarries, which allowed the construction of many Parisian buildings. Traversed by fossils in hollow and in volume, they bear witness to the teeming aquatic life which extended over the Paris basin, several million years ago.
Invited to capture the mineral landscape of the Palais de Tokyo esplanade, Rodrigo Braga creates a landlocked sea, from which limestone rocks emerge. These sand-colored stones, whose appearance seems familiar to us, come from ROCAMAT's Savonnières quarries, which allowed the construction of many Parisian buildings. Traversed by fossils in hollow and in volume, they bear witness to the teeming aquatic life which extended over the Paris basin, several million years ago.
Credit SAM Art Projects
SAM Art Projects production, with the support of Bouygues Bâtiment Île-de-France, France-Lanord & Bichaton and Rocamat natural stone.
