Contra a cegueira da ordem estabelecida (Against the blindness of the established order)
The visitor is encouraged to spy through the a tiny hole in a small box. At this moment, a software written in Processing captures the image the visitor's eye and inserts it in the classic scene of Luis Buñuel and Salvador DalÃ's Le chien andalou (1929), replacing the actress' eye. Even 80 years after the publication of the Surrealist Manifesto(1924), by Andre Breton, the works developed in that period still provokes concern and reflections - especially regarding the aesthetics and the values of the bourgeoisie and the bureaucratic society. Although Buñuel claimed that there was no intention to produce meaning as a film (on the contrary, the only way to reverse it would be to escape rationalization), Le chien andalou triggered a diverse of social, political, cultural and psychological interpretations. This audiovisual installation inquires the act of seeing itself through a political perpective. What does it mean to cut an eye? At Contra a cegueira da ordem estabelecidacutting an eye suggests an emancipatory gesture, which frees the dissatisfied and questioning gaze from the limits of a neutralized gaze, that is, conformist, apathetic, conditioned, automated. Seeing is also a political attitude, and opening your eyes can be as violent an experience as cutting a razor.
Researched by Graziele Lautenschlaeger