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Catarina Braga
5 months ago
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General Description
The title of the work alludes to the philosophical thought experiment which questions whether the human perception interferes in changing reality. Does reality continue to exist, even when no one is looking? The images are photographs taken using Google Earth’s platform which showed the digital landscape of the Amazon Forest in Brazil, just as it was represented at the time - summer of 2019 - when there were huge fires being put in the forest due to the interests of the livestock industry and the exploration of the land for soy plantations.Printed on silk — an organic material made by silkworms — these images make use of a material that, in order to be profitable, requires to kill the animals which produce it.
Caption
View of the work 'If a Tree Falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?' (2019), at the exhibition 'This is a Shot' at Museu de Serralves (Porto, 2025) / photo: © Filipe Braga
Location
Fundação de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal