A vingança é uma espécie de justiça selvagem  

When it rains in São Paulo, trunks and branches often fall on the roads, causing complaints from drivers. They are convinced that the city belongs to them, and blame the trees for disrupting traffic. Lucas Bambozzi noted this and, inspired by the words of one of the fathers of the Enlightenment Francis Bacon, wondered what would happen if trees took revenge on cars with “a kind of wild justice”. He imagined that, fed up with living in asphalt and stressed by pollution, they would seize vehicles and hold them hostage. These visions came true when a white Volkswagen beetle was found hanging from a eucalyptus tree on farmland near São Paulo that had been destroyed by fire. The site-specific piece was incorporated into an outdoor tour of the farm until another fire caused the car to fall.

Through photographs, videos, a photo novel and an installation, this project takes an ironical look at changes in the social status of the automobile. What was once an icon of speed and urban life has become a symbol of the energy and environmental crisis, and has been subjected to moratoriums and bans on entering cities.

Born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1976, Lucas Bambozzi is a multimedia artista. He holds a degree in Social Communication from the University of Belo Horizonte, a master in Philosophy of Computer Science from the University of Plymouth and a PhD in Architecture from the University of São Paulo. Since the late 1980s, he has been developing studies and artistic works on audiovisual language, with special attention to electronic media and their confluences. His work has been shown in festivals and exhibitions in more than 40 countries, in organisations such as Moma (USA), ZKM, Frankfurter Kunstverein (Germany), Arco (Spain), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Croatia), WRO Media Art Biennale (Poland), Centre Georges Pompidou (France), Havana Biennial (Cuba), as well as numerous events in Brazil such as the São Paulo Biennial and Emoçao Art.Ficial. He has participated in film and video festivals such as Videobrasil, É Tudo Verdade, Festival do Rio, Sundance (USA), Impakt (Holland), FID Marseille (France) among many others. His project Mobile Crash received an honourable mention at Ars Electronica 2010 and in 2012 was recognised with the prestigious Sergio Motta Award. He has curated the projects SonarSound (2004), Digitofagia (2004), Life Goes Mobile (Nokiatrends 2005 and 2006), Motomix (2006), O Lugar Dissonante (2009), ON_OFF (2012-2017) and Visualismo (2015). He was one of the founders and curators of arte.mov, International Festival of Mobile Media Art (2006-2012), as well as of the Labmovel project (Honourable Mention Ars Electronica 2013). He currently teaches at FAAP in São Paulo.

OUTDOOR INSTALLATION

11 – LUCAS BAMBOZZI
A vingança é uma espécie de justiça selvagem 

VENUE: Old petrol station
ADDRESS: Algorta Av. 74