Bijari

This group of artists is based in a studio in São Paulo (Brazil). It was formed in 1997, when its members (Eduardo Loureiro, Geandre Tomazoni, Gustavo Godoy, Maurício Brandão, Olavo Ekman and Rodrigo Araújo) were students at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of São Paulo.

The metropolis and urban living, public spaces, conflictive sociability and the ways in which all this is built, both physically and symbolically, are constant questions in Bijari’s work.

The urban landscape in which the “(in)visibility of cultural tension” takes place within city enclaves, of their key areas of interest, as they consider it to be the source of the contrasts that define economic and cultural identities, as the struggle which social groups undergo to ensure their rights.

In their keenness to better understand the tensions that exist within a community, the will be presenting a project at MDE11 which will be investigating social and economic changes that have brought the Metrocable transport system to the Santo Domingo Savio neighborhood, north-east of Medellin.

In order to get closer to the local community, Bijari will be setting up a workshop which will collect documentary and narrative material concerning the stories, secrets, conflicts and desires of the neighborhood’s residents. The resulting material offers a new perspective of the local landscape from the heights reached by the Metrocable, as they have said they will are planning an urban intervention on the roofs of the houses on its route.

Website
www.bijari.com.br

MDE11 participation