SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE GROUNDFAIR

2011

Video installation (three-channel with original soundtrack)

Variable dimensions / Loop 07’03”

Series of 12 Photographs

Ink Jet on Canson Rag Paper 310gg

12 (42 x 30 cm)

“Saturday Night at the Fairground" features nocturnal recordings in a small and disorganized amusement park, populated by hundreds of children and squeezed between the Falete, Fogueteiro and Coroa favelas, in Rio de Janeiro. In the midst of obsolete and rusty boules, roulettes, toboggans and Ferris wheels, the images still reveal moments of joy and simplicity.

Made in 2011, this piece is part of a series of video installations and photographs, still in progress and entitled "Small stories of modesty and doubt", where Dias & Riedweg seek to extol modesty and doubt as the supreme virtues of subjectivity and at the same time, register the period of intense social and economic transformation that Brazil is going through.

Three video channels show fragments filmed at the same time and from the same location, but at different angles and speeds, thus materializing the existence of a reality more complex than the obvious expected. Superimposed on the small sounds recorded on site, a composition for piano created by Walter Riedweg for the video transforms it into a ballet of lights and colored and geometric gears.