- City
- Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
- Tags
- Guest artist
- Year
- 2019
Otavio Schipper’s work delves with ready-made objects – antique telegraph machines, tuning forks, eyeglasses, elevator cabins or electric poles – to connect past physical worlds with present mental landscapes.
In Schipper’s installations, the spectator often experiences a spectrum of sensations, from enlightenment to nostalgia. Elements of hard science and technologies from different periods lead the viewer into territories more closely associated with dream states and imagination dives, instead of a systematic organization of knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
In 2019, Schipper visited CERN as part of the Guest Artist programme. This visit was organised in collaboration with KLAS (Knowledge Link through Art and Science), an Artist-in-Residence programme of the Max Planck Society and Polyhedra.eu.
