Visual Essay
26.08.2020
Extinct birds
João Paulo Serafim
Through natural history and the appropriation of images of the internet, this video essay questions the traditional models of representation, classification, organisation of scientific genesis, juxtaposing to the fiction of entertainment. It shows how man's action and climatic changes are affecting birds in the last two centuries.
João Paulo Serafim is a visual artist working with several media, mostly working in the areas of photography, video, installation and publishing. His practice reflects on issues related with Museology and its context. Questioning phenomenas such as collections, their displays and implications for an artistic discourse, and also their critical and social context. In recent years the artist has been working around the idea of Natural History in the context of these museums and the effects of these collections (landscape, species and cultures). Through video essays, photography and use of [images objects] that form a constellation for a map of ideas which are part of a personal mythology. Where appropriations of cinema, the internet and conventional archives intersect and proposes a contemporary reading of the new dystopian realities to which humanity is pushed. More information: https://joaopauloserafim.com
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