DAniel lie. FILHXS DO FIM [CHILDREN OF THE END]

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1 DAniel lie. FILHXS DO FIM [CHILDREN OF THE END]

2 Daniel Lie. Filhxs do Fim [Children of the End], Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brasil. foto [photo]: Filipe Berndt

13 DANIEL LIE FILHXS DO FIM DE A DANIEL LIE CHILDREN OF THE END FROM TO Em 2018, a Casa Triângulo completa 30 anos de atividade e abre a temporada de exposições comemorativas com a segunda mostra do jovem artista Daniel Lie na galeria, que acontece na semana pré-carnaval e no decorrer da quaresma. Intitulada Filhxs do Fim, a mostra é composta por uma grande instalação que ocupa sala principal da galeria. A obra é construída por uma combinação de elementos naturais que acentuam a passagem do tempo por meio de seus ciclos naturais. Plantas, sementes, e terra criam a estrutura, que permite o espectador observar a impermanência das coisas, como uma cerimônia lenta, rumo a um fim inevitável. Ao longo da exposição, os elementos dispostos caminham para seus processos de morte e vida, como sementes que brotam e fermentam, flores se decompõem e fungos se proliferam. A instalação Filhxs do Fim é pensada como um altar para a morte, carregando simbologias presentes em alguns rituais de matrizes africanas e asiáticas, temas que o artista vem se aprofundando nos últimos anos, como a presença da figura do Oroboro, imagem que conduz a instalação o fim como começo. Oroboro é uma criatura mitológica, uma serpente que engole a própria cauda formando um círculo e que simboliza o ciclo da vida, o infinito, a mudança, o tempo, a evolução, a fecundação, o nascimento, a morte, a ressurreição, a criação, a destruição, a renovação. Muitas vezes, esse símbolo antigo está associado à criação do Universo. Além da instalação, o artista apresenta uma linha de vasos em cerâmica, desenvolvidos em parceria com a marca Olive Cerâmica, exclusiva para a Casa Triângulo. Daniel Lie é um artista jovem, que também completa 30 anos em Nos últimos anos vem participando de importantes exposições em museus de países como Brasil, Inglaterra, Húngria, Indonésia, Áustria, Alemanha e Chile. Tendo o tempo como ponto referencial de sua produção, o artista desenvolve trabalhos que questionam tensões entre ciência e religião, ancestralidade, presente, morte e vida. A instalação Filhxs do Fim é uma variação da instalação Death Center for the Living (2017), que foi um dos grandes destaques do Vienna Festwochen, em is the year of Casa Triângulo s 30th anniversary, and its commemorative exhibitions season opens with the second show by young artist Danie Lie at the gallery, happening in the week previous to Carnaval and during Lent. Entitled Filhxs do Fim [Children of the End], the show presents a large installation which occupies the gallery s main room. The work is built wih a combination of natural elements that accentuate the passage of time through their natural cycles. Plants, seeds and dirt create the structure which allows the viewer to observe the impermanence of them, like a slow ceremony which leads to an inevitable ending. During the exhibition, the disposed elements advance to their life and death processes, as sprouting and fermenting seeds, decomposing flowers and proliferating fungus. The installation Filhxs do Fim is thought as an altar for Death, carrying symbolisms present in some rituals of African and Asian origins, themes into which the artist has deepened himself over the last years, like the presence of the Ouroboros figure, an image that leads the installation - the end as the beginning. The Ouroboros is a mytological creature, a serpent which swallows its own tale, forming a circle, and which symbolizes the circle of life, infinity, change, time, evolution, destruction and renovation. This ancient symbol is many times associated to the creation of the Universe. Furthermore, the artist also presents a line of ceramics, developed in partnership with the brand Olive Cerâmica, exclusive for Casa Triângulo. Daniel Lie is a young artistwho is also going on 30 years old in Over the last years, he has been participating in important exhibitions in Brasil and abroad in England, Hungary, Indonesia, Austria, Germany and Chile. Having time as a starting point for his production, the artist develops works that question tensions between science and religion, ancestry, present, life and death. The installation Filhxs do Fim is a variation of the installation Death Center for the Living (2017), which was one of the highlights of the Vienna Festwochen, in 2017.

14 DANIEL LIE NASCEU EM [BORN IN] SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL, 1988 VIVE E TRABALHA EM [LIVES AND WORKS IN] SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL EDUCAÇÃO [EDUCATION] Bacharelado e Licenciatura em Artes Visuais [Bachelor of Arts], Universidade Estadual de São Paulo - UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil EXPOSIÇÕES INDIVIDUAIS [SOLO EXHIBITIONS] 2018 Filhxs do Fim, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brasil 2015 Lie Liong Khing, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil Pacto com o Futuro, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Meus Sentimentos, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil 2011 Âmago, Instituto de Artes da Universidade Estadual de São Paulo - UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil EXPOSIÇÕES COLETIVAS [GROUP EXHIBITIONS] 2018 Festival Bouge B (futura [upcoming]), Antwerp, Belgium 2017 XIV Bienal da Indonésia - Biennale Jogja, Jogja National Museum, em Yogyakarta, Indonésia Quermuseu Cartografias da Arte Brasileira, curadoria de [curated by] Gaudêncio Fidelis, Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre, Brasil Frestas - Trienal de Artes, Sesc Sorocaba, Brasil Welt Kompakt? Out of Brazil, curadoria de [curated by] Ursula Maria Probst, Viena, Áustria You or I?, curadoria de Ursula Maria Probst, Melk, Áustria O terceiro mundo pede a benção e vai dormir, curadoria de [curated by] Victor Gorgulho, Despina, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Centro de Morte para os Vivos, Viena Festwochen, Viena, Áustria 2016 O que vem com a aurora, curadoria de [curated by] Bernardo Mosqueira, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brasil Elefante branco com paninho em cima, curadoria de [curated by] Ana Maria Maia, Paço das Artes no MIS, São Paulo, Brazil Projeto Brasil - Tropicalypse Now!, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany Tá tranquilo, Tá favorável, curadoria de [curated by] Paula Borghi, Hellerau, Dresden, Germany Espacios Revelados, La CA.SA, Santiago, Chile 2015 Saideira, curadoria de [curated by] Fernando Mota, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil One Plus One, Lubomirov/Angus-Hughes, Londres, Inglaterra 34ª Arte Pará, Museu do Estado do Pará; Museu da Casa das Onze Janelas; e [and] Museu Paraense Amílio Goeldi, Belém, Brazil Abre Alas 11, Galeria A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2014 Expo 14/15, Galeria Bolsa de Arte, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Iª Mostra do Programa de Exposições 2015, Centro Cultural São Paulo - CCSP, São Paulo, Brazil 9ª Residência Artística do Red Bull Station, São Paulo, Brazil Prêmio EDP Tomie Ohtake, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil Galeria Transitória, Redbull Station, São Paulo, Brazil Coletiva, Tofiq House, São Paulo, Brazil SP na Rua, instalação [installation], São Paulo, Brazil Dez/proposições, Espaço Hussardos, São Paulo, Brazil 2013 Feira Parte, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil Projecto Múltiplo, Centro Cultural São Paulo - CCSP, São Paulo, Brazil 2012 Lote, Instituto de Artes da Universidade Estadual de São Paulo - UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil Laço, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil Para Todos, Liceu de Artes e Oficio, São Paulo, Brazil Fabrique à Rêves, Le 6B, Saint Denis, France NEO-TROPICALISM: Brazilian art in constant mutation, Camp and Furnace, Liverpool, UK Nova Contemporary Culture Festival, Casa das Caldeiras; e [and] Museu da Imagem e Som, São Paulo, Brazil nós-moçada TAZTU, Centro Cultural São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil nós-moçada #2, Ateliê Veredas, São Paulo, Brazil nós-moçada #1, Casa Contemporânea, São Paulo, Brazil

15 2011 Programa Experiência, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil GIRA, Peras Del Olmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina ]ENTRE[, Instituto de Artes da Universidade Estadual de São Paulo - UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil Mônica Nador com autoria compartilhada, Pavilhão das Culturas Brasileiras, São Paulo, Brazil 2009 Ateliê de Gravura, Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil 2008 Linha Poesis, Instituto de Artes da Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil PERFORMANCES 2016 PODRERA / tropicalypse now! - Projeto Brasil, Kampnagel, Hamburgo, Alemanha Lindinalva e o Bálsamo - CCBB Música Performance 4, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo, Brasil RESIDÊNCIAS [RESIDENCIES] 2017 Teresina Tohoku, Espaço CAMPO, Teresina, Piauí, Brasil 2016 NAVE, Santiago do Chile, Chile º Residência Artística Redbull Station, São Paulo, Brazil 2013 Espaço Cultural Casa do Povo, São Paulo, Brazil B, Le 6B, Saint Denis, France LOTE - UNESP, Fazenda Serrinha, Bragança Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil 2009 Gravura em Metal, ateliê da artista plástica Eliane Santos Rocha, Porto Alegre, Brazil

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18 ARTREVIEW. SEPTEMBER 2017 Interview Daniel Lie Mystical experiences are all over art, but people don t talk about them by Ross Simonini 62 ArtReview

19 ARTREVIEW. SEPTEMBER 2017 For the most part, visual art stands before you on the wall or it rises up to meet you from the floor. Daniel Lie s work arrives, most often from above. It drapes and sways and drips from the rafters. The relationship it describes is between the heavens and the dirt: looking skyward, falling earthward. Rocks cradled with rope, fruit sagging in mesh sacks, crystals the size of bowling balls suspended by a complex network of fibres. In the twenty-nine-year-old Brazilian artist s recent installation Death Center for the Living (2017) at the Wiener Festwochen, viewers reclined on straw mats and gazed up into a hanging garden. Overhead, linseeds sprouted and died in a canopy of fresh soil, rotting fruit, cannabis plants, drying flowers and fermenting rice. In accord with Lie s conditions, anyone who entered the space was to remain silent and leave belongings outside the installation wallet, watch, mobile phone, camera, shoes. Throughout all of this, Lie sat inside the environment and meditated. He is often directly present in his art, and performs rituals throughout the entire process, from conception to exhibition. In interviews and at openings, he paints his face and body in bright blues and sunset reds, and dyes his eyebrows canary yellow. He costumes regularly, particularly in workmen s uniforms, and sees dressing up as a part of the art process. He wears a single thick tail of hair down his back and shaves the rest. For Lie, dress and body colours change frequently, and serve as an extension to his art. This kind of self-transformation began when he was working with Voodoohop, an art collective in his hometown of São Paulo, which inhabited local natural hideaways and held dance parties influenced by indigenous Brazilian traditions. Likewise, Lie s implementation of materials is learned from traditional farming methods. Recently he s been learning directly from the source, spending periods of his time with the Tupinambá people in the rainforests of Brazil. On Instagram, Lie gives an intimate chronicle of his peripatetic life, floating through a series of installations and residences, both official and self-imposed. This autumn, he travels to Indonesia to make a season-long new work for the Biennale Jogja, where in preparation for the show, he will study with shamans and introduce himself to the home country of his father. ross simonini Is your art born from mysticism? daniel lie I think my work starts in thinking about death. Maybe the first mystical experience I had was the first time I saw a corpse. A relative of mine passed away, my Indonesian grandfather, and I saw the body lying on a metal table before getting his clothes changed for the funeral. I think this situation can be a democratic, open experience. A very basic question opened: where did my grandfather go? Then came another question: if we die, what s the purpose of living? After that, when I was getting above Daniel Lie in collaboration with Vivian Caccuri, Death Center for the Living, 2017 (installation view, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna). Photo: Inés Bacher facing page Daniel Lie installing Podrera, 2016 (Kampnagel, Hamburg). Photo: Martin Meiser deeper in art, I tried to reach back into this experience. The way that I understood this was to reach beyond this constructed reality. So, I ve been practising meditation. I ve been practising Tai Chi Chuan, Vipassana meditation, Daimoku [nam-myohorenge-kyo]. I ve been going to a Candomblé [Afro-Brazilian cult] here in Brazil. I ve been going deeper into the understanding of female strengths in me. Also, I ve been experiencing different types of psychoactive elements, and I think all of this gave me, and can give, a wider understanding of life and death. rs Is making the work a mystical experience for you? dl In my work, I think the first thing is the relationship I develop with it. In one part, I try not to look for complete control of the work. I put in elements that can change throughout time. Nowadays I develop my work for a specific space and I only do it once. And I try to find different layers to connect it to this space, by personal rituals or by meeting with people who had or have a personal connection with the place. Sometimes I sleep at the venue and through my dreams I access an image, a symbology. We re using the word mystical and I like to use the word energy too, but we re talking about a certain kind of energy. Science has many words for energy: gravity, heat, electricity, magnetic fields, etc. And all of them are energy. But maybe we can call this kind of energy a field of emotion. But these words are not enough. The experience, though it can be beyond enough. rs Do you channel this energy with your work? dl I don t think I am channelling. I think this energy can be accessible for everyone, the thing is I feel like it s a language and it requires dedication to be able to communicate with it. But this vision of artistic channelling September

20 ARTREVIEW. SEPTEMBER 2017 can be tricky. I don t like to place myself, as an artist, as different from everybody else. I think our society is very romantic. Here in Brazil at least, when you are an artist you are either a semigod or nearly a vagabond. So where is the middle? Where is the human, the someone normal, just like you or I? In this field of art, it s not something understood only by your brain, but with your emotions, your body. To understand can require a deeper, wider sense of time. Maybe you don t understand the artwork now, but in ten years it will come back to you, and that s the period of time this artwork needed to make sense to you. rs Do you find that there s resistance to this kind of thinking in the artworld? dl Yeah, there s tons of taboo, and one of the easiest ways to talk about it is through scientific language. Our society believes in science, we take it as truth, as reality. Lots of things from science are only theories, but science needs to be believed. When we talk about something that is not from this field, we re going against what society believes, so it gets diminished. When we re talking about this holistic side, we only have a few words to describe so many different energetic processes, and that s very frustrating. These mystical experiences are all over art, but people don t talk about them. Look at the construction of a museum. It s built like a sacred place the way the objects are untouch- able, the way these places can be very socially intimidating for some, the way the space and lighting are designed around pieces of art to enhance them, the amount of security, and even if we look at how people behave inside a museum walking slowly, paying attention and being quiet. Or if we look at Joseph Beuys, his whole work s about energy and material and shamanism and rituals, but texts written about him want to talk more about his political side, involvement with the university and so on. This whole other side is not taken seriously, and I think that s a big mistake. At the same time, as I start to connect with other fields of art, like performance, dance and theatre, there this whole subject is not as taboo as in the visual arts. Even in the academic world they talk about energy, about the unified field and how to connect and work it or be involved with it. I think the United States and countries in Europe can be even more sceptical about the subject than South American countries. In the visual arts we are especially It s not something understood only by your brain, but with your emotions, your body. To understand can require a deeper, wider sense of time. Maybe you don t understand the artwork now, but in ten years it will come back to you, and that s the period of time this artwork needed to make sense to you ignorant of this, and I personally think it s a very irresponsible attitude. rs Your use of organic materials seems connected to this idea of energy soil, live plants, rotten fruit. dl The material is the most important part of the work. I try to bring the material as it is meaning it can change throughout time due to living-dying processes. I am not interested in the representation of something. I m interested in the experience directly. I used to work with synthetics, like plastic, but in 2015 I stopped. I did three solo exhibitions at the same time in São Paulo, in venues that I dreamed my whole life to work in. But I got completely tired, physically and on a spiritual level. At first I couldn t understand why. Then I realised I was making some type of mistake because if I was doing what I believed in, why was I so drained? So after, I thought about the cycle of organic materials, how life and death are not separated, how the fungi that rot also feed the plants. I realise the synthetics did not do that, so I stopped working with plastics. Then I felt like I was able to generate energy again. This was a breaking point in my work. rs When did this break happen? dl In 2016, in Chile, in this hundred-year-old house in this central neighbourhood in Santiago called Yungay. I made a work called Asumimos de ahora en adelante [We take on, from now on]. Lindinalva and the Balm, 2016 (performance, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo). Photo: Leonardo Matsuhei September

21 ARTREVIEW. SEPTEMBER 2017 Guilhermina Esperança, 2015 (installation view, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo). Photo: Edouard Fraipont 64 ArtReview

22 ARTREVIEW. SEPTEMBER 2017 I used hemp fabric, hemp ropes and dirt. The majority of houses in Chile are made with adobe, so I studied bioconstruction techniques and worked with these techniques for the first time. It was all handmade. I developed this adobe that was a mix of the dirt I gathered with horse manure and linseeds, and mixed everything with my hands. It was a very deep connection with the material. I spent a month doing this work. It was a very remarkable old house, almost a ruin, made of adobe. There were also a lot of dead pigeons in the place and I made some altars for them. I used the sacred cacti from Chile, Bolivia and Peru, which is called San Pedro. I worked with 55 cacti and, at the end of the installation, the people in the area could go there and collect one cactus to take home. So it spread throughout the neighbourhood. After the work was finished, all the biodegradable components went back into the earth. This was the first show I did addressing the question: how do the sacred plants influence an environment while they are alive? And this is especially towards sacred plants usually used in rituals or consumed to achieve other mind-states and living states. I also brought this question to my most recent work, Death Center for the Living, with the two cannabis indica trees. rs Do you see the artist s role as a social one? dl I think the artist is very important for society because we can make other people more sensitive. That s how art has impacted me. I think nowadays the artist is very much needed for our society. To be an artist can be a calling, just like to be a shaman, a priest, a doctor this occupation that is towards the other. I think it is a big responsibility. In Brazil a very, very important artist named Tunga recently died [in 2016], and he is a reference for me. He helped me to see art as shamanism. I felt energy from his objects and installations. I could feel it just like we can feel a living being. rs Does treating art as work conflict with the artist s spiritual role? dl In Brazilian Portuguese, work is trabalho. When you go to make some spiritual act, you need to bring an offering of organic materials or perform a specific ritual that we call trabalho. We call it work. The word is very open. It is a bridge between the spiritual and the labour we do every day. I want to purge myself of work, but I was born in São Paulo, which is a city completely made for work. Three years ago, Pedro França, a Brazilian artist, gave a talk at the event Longitudes, When you go to make some spiritual act, you need to bring an offering of organic materials or perform a specific ritual that we call trabalho. We call it work. The word is very open. It is a bridge between the spiritual and the labour we do every day at the institution Casa do Povo, about the artist as the producer of herself or himself. For us artists, we have to do everything. We have to be our administrator. We have to do the accounting. We have to clean up. We have to have all the skills that would make one company. We do it all by ourselves. I thought he was going to say how difficult it is and share the pain, but actually he started to say that this is the future of capitalism, the self-made person, the person that does everything, the company person. And that shocked me, to understand that I m already creating the model of the future capitalism. I ve been very privileged to be able to do what I do, with the historical, political and social conditions of Brazil I would not be able to deal with all this professional side of the artworld if I hadn t worked as an artist assistant for Leda Catunda for four years, to come to the understanding that with this type of labour we are also feeding this machine. It sometimes feels like there s no way to completely escape, but this is the society where I was born. Biennale Jogja xiv Equator # 4: Indonesia Meets Brazil takes place from 2 November to 9 December Ross Simonini is an artist, writer, musician and documentarian. His first novel, The Book of Formation, will be published by Melville House and Penguin on 14 November How low can you go?, 2016 (installation view, Change-Change, Budapest). Photo: Sári Ember all images Courtesy the artist September

23 ARTREVIEW. SEPTEMBER 2017 Asumimos de ahora en adelante, 2016 (installation view, calle Compañía de Jesús 2850, Santiago de Chile) 66 ArtReview