Cracks
This work documents a walk the artist took under the architectural canopy that connects some of Oscar Niemeyer’s buildings in São Paulo’s Ibirapuera Park. Presented as a slide show, it reveals the cracks that he chanced upon in the pavement, many of which bore a striking resemblance to the South American continent.
Utopic dreams
The location these 27 images were taken at is key. Lagomarsino is asking us to see the modernist project, here symbolised by Niemeyer’s buildings and Roberto Burle Marx’s park design, as an essentially cracked dream of progress.
Hangover
Lagomarsino was born in Sweden to Argentine parents but has lived between Malmö and São Paulo for many years. His work, often performative and involving some sort of journey, deals with the European origins of Latin America and the colonial hangover the continent still suffers from.
Self-reflection
The work is included by Pablo León de la Barra in his curation of Under The Same Sun, a survey of Latin American art, at the South London Gallery. In it, de la Barra is questioning what Latin America is, as well as the influence of the western gaze.
