Our Silences / Monumental urban installation

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Our Silences is an itinerant sculpture created to make us reflect on the importance of free speech and self-censorship. It intends to incite an intimate dialogue with the spectator on one of the most fundamental human rights and, at the same time, to establish a symbolic interchange with the places where it is shown.

The ten monumental bronze busts with covered mouths and the so called “tactile box” for the blind and visually weak, are both designed to journey all over the world. Since 2009, the installation has been presented in Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Russia, Mexico and the United States in cities like San Diego and, very recently, in San Francisco, by the bay.

 

Rivelino’s appropriationist style —apparent in the way he freely uses typical antique sculptural forms in his proposal— clearly seeks to establish an immediate bond with the past and the memories of the spectator and, at the same time, a strong physical relationship between the work and the spectator Nevertheless, underlying all this is a profound reflection on liberty and its daily exercise.

 

The eleventh sculpture is an interactive cube (2m3) which allows spectators to perceive what cannot be perceived with the eye. Each side has two holes that incite the spectator to discover what is inside and what is found are four tiny sculptures that reproduce the ones outside. People can actually touch the sculptures by introducing their hands through the holes and experience tactile, thermic, and affective sensations.

 

The purpose of this huge steel cube is to attract all kinds of spectators, but especially young people, children, and those visually weak or blind. It is a unique sculpture because it offers, beyond our sense of sight, the opportunity of sharing in a simple way an extraordinary aesthetic experience. For all this, Our Silences is an inclusive, open, artistic and social project.

Nuestros Silencios / Instalación urbana monumental

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Nuestros silencios es una instalación escultórica monumental que aborda tanto la autocensura individual como uno de los derechos humanos fundamentales: la libertad de expresión. En cada una de las ciudades en que se presenta, la obra adquiere un significado distinto al establecer relaciones contextuales con su arquitectura, su cultura, su sociedad y su historia.

 

Nuestros silencios está integrada por diez piezas antropomorfas de gran formato −3.50 x 2.20 x 1.10 m, con un peso aproximado de una tonelada cada una−, elaboradas en bronce a la cera perdida, con pátina de colores blanco y ocre. Incluye también la Caja táctil, escultura cúbica realizada en acero en cuyo interior se encuentran cuatro piezas de pequeño formato basadas en las monumentales; aunque fueron creadas especialmente para personas con discapacidad visual, también permiten establecer una experiencia lúdica a cualquier espectador.

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