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You might find them on children’s graves – small, placed objects that resist time as colourful testimonies to a life while the surrounding greenery has withered. Similarly, Paulo Wirz’s organic material, turf in a closed space, is dead, while the objects loosely strewn across this lawn speak of vitality. Made of cheap material, they encapsulate rich memories of childish games from a different place. They are the marbles, dice, seashells, polished glass shards or buttons that Wirz brought to Switzerland from his parental home in Brazil. Now that ten years have passed since his arrival, these relics from his early years casually populate his installations. Here they are now, half found object, half talisman, traces of a biography or the simple leftovers of an afternoon spent outdoors with the neighbours’ kids. Among the grass, mirrors double the images in an upside-down reality. At the edges, the field of turf, linearly laid out, seems to order your gaze to turn back...More
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You might find them on children’s graves – small, placed objects that resist time as colourful testimonies to a life while the surrounding greenery has withered. Similarly, Paulo Wirz’s organic material, turf in a closed space, is dead, while the objects loosely strewn across this lawn speak of vitality. Made of cheap material, they encapsulate rich memories of childish games from a different place. They are the marbles, dice, seashells, polished glass shards or buttons that Wirz brought to Switzerland from his parental home in Brazil. Now that ten years have passed since his arrival, these relics from his early years casually populate his installations. Here they are now, half found object, half talisman, traces of a biography or the simple leftovers of an afternoon spent outdoors with the neighbours’ kids. Among the grass, mirrors double the images in an upside-down reality. At the edges, the field of turf, linearly laid out, seems to order your gaze to turn back...More
