Installation, performance
Started in 2012
Don't take yourself too seriously is an attempt to induce time travel. It is also an exploration on memory and the passage of time.
When I had the sentence "don't take yourself too seriously" tattooed on the inside of my right arm in 2012, after spending a month in an art residency in New York, I thought most people would never notice (it was meant to be a self reminder). On the subway back home from the tattoo studio, I caught someone discreetly taking a photo of my arm. A week later, when this project was born.
The project
I had a plate made to press a silent record. The idea was to have the record playing as part of a larger installation where the white noise, coming from the needle touching the media, would activate memories. The project became a life long enterprise as I decided to press one record for every year of my life (and keeping pressing a new one every year until I die). All records are numbered according to my years of existence as an artifice to activate memories in a specific way. The record is single sided. On one side, the memories one can access, on the other, a reminder of how much we forget.
"The progression is not linear"
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Casamata, Rio de Janeiro, 2013
The piece has been shown as an installation (where the record of the year plays in loop as the others sit aside) and as a performance, where people gather to listen to the different years and share memories.
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At Brooklyn Phono, New York, 2012