Now it’s Mauá Square’s turn to host Busão das Artes. It's your third stop. The Busão has already passed through Gávea and Madureira. With free visits, the project is a 15-meter truck adapted to receive visual arts works and interactive experiments with a scientific approach.
The idea was created by curator and interdisciplinary creator Marcello Dantas in partnership with physicist Luiz Alberto Rezende de Oliveira, former curator of the Museum of Tomorrow. Busão is a project carried out by three women: Renata Lima, who runs Das Lima Produções; and the duo Lilian Pieroni and Luciana Levacov, from Carioca DNA.
The initiative has two aspects: an environmental one, which deals with bacteria and their role in our ecosystem; and another scientific, which addresses our knowledge about the human organism. And those who guide the visitor through this rich and little explored universe are invisible to the eye: fungi and bacteria.
Anyone who goes to Busão will discover, with a dash of humor, that there are more than a quadrillion bacteria on Earth, of which 100 billion inhabit the human body, and 99,99% have not yet been discovered.
Another curiosity is the most complete biometrics of a human being: the navel microflora (more identity than any other way of making an individual unique). It is represented in photos by artist Vik Muniz who, in partnership with biomedical engineer Tal Danino, made bacteriological portraits of Brazilian personalities.
The artist Jaider Esbell (1979-2021), indigenous to the Macuxi ethnic group, presents the work “Life comes from the invisible light — The people who live in our body”. Produced especially for Busão, measuring 120×140 cm, the work alludes to the constant metamorphosis that is life.
For the curator, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, people ended up learning more about a series of processes that are not visible to the naked eye, but that change the course of history. This microbial dimension, be it fungus, bacteria or virus, is active and has a lot to tell us: “We need to instill awareness about these dynamics in people's heads and use art as a platform to understand the forces that are in constant relationship”, says Marcello.
On the outside of the Busão there are containers with questions so that visitors can reflect on what they saw and on the human condition itself.
Service:
Busão das Artes
Stop: Praça Mauá
16/Feb/2022 to 19/Feb/2022 – Wednesday to Saturday
21/Feb/2022 to 24/Feb/2022 – Monday to Thursday
Closing: February 24, 2022
Opening hours: 9am to 5pm
Scheduled visit times: 9am to 11am and 3pm to 5pm
Information: https://www.busaodasartes.com.br/
Free entrance
