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This group of artists is based in a studio in S\u00e3o Paulo (Brazil). It was formed in 1997, when its members (Eduardo Loureiro, Geandre Tomazoni, Gustavo Godoy, Maur\u00edcio Brand\u00e3o, Olavo Ekman and Rodrigo Ara\u00fajo) were students at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s work.<\/strong><\/p>\n The urban landscape in which the \u201c(in)visibility of cultural tension\u201d 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n 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\u2019s residents.<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n