Our Silences Europe
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.
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Nuestros Silencios Europa
Nuestros silencios es una instalación escultórica contextual itinerante. La obra fue creada para generar la reflexión sobre la importancia de la libertad de expresión y la autocensura; busca propiciar un diálogo intimo, pero al mismo tiempo abierto, respecto de uno de los derechos humanos fundamentales, además de establecer un intercambio simbólico con los lugares donde es montada.
Los diez bustos monumentales de bronce con las bocas tapadas, y la llamada caja táctil destinada a los ciegos y débiles visuales, son un proyecto diseñado para itinerar alrededor del mundo. A partir de 2009 la instalación ha sido presentada en Portugal, España, Bélgica, Alemania, Italia, Reino Unido, Rusia, México y Estados Unidos.
El estilo claramente apropiacionista al que Rivelino recurre al tomar formas arquetípicas de la escultura antigua para construir esta propuesta, busca sin duda establecer un lazo inmediato con la memoria del espectador y generar una obra altamente relacional de intenso contacto físico, en donde lo que hay de fondo es un cuestionamiento puntual a la libertad y su ejercicio cotidiano.
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