2015 has been a strange and gloomy year for the world. We have been struck by terrorist attacks, war and obviously the refugee crisis in unprecedented scales. All of these events highlighted by the growth of the right and extreme right wing movements.
In Brazil, specifically, where I have been mostly in contact with, we have been struggling with the "sudden" discovery by the Brazilian people of the exhistance of corruption, as if it had never existed and as if the current government had invented it. Rather the opposite, we actually have the first government that is investigating and punishing acts of corruption, appart from promoting a deep reorganization of our society, diminishing extreme poverty and growing the middle class. Obviously with it's own mistakes and bad decisions, but being judged in such a scale for these acts that wouldn't ever be imagined to happen against previous conservative governments.
The Brazilian media supports the elite right wing parties and a coo of monumental proportions against this same democratically elected government. In the everyday life, the relations between people have become more aggressive and individualistic, leading to a dangerous belief of the enemy allways being the other.
All these questions, and the possibility, even though sometimes absurd, of looking through different sides of a same question, led me to the development of the current series of drawings that I have been working on lately. Dealing with the questions of mathematics that allways interest me, bringing their inferences to the concrete relations and events of the tangible world, they bear a notion of reflecting over the idea of the point of view, deception, illusion and the volatility of truth.
All the works bring visual mathematical problems in which the solutions, when seen with the common gaze, are taken for granted as simple and obvious. This, in the given historical moment, comes as a proposition of the reeducation of the perception of the world around us and the relations established within it. A seemingly abstract and intangible set of ideas, when placed in the world that we currentely live in, are redefined and promote an understanding of multiple points of view and the possibility of all of them being true at the same moment.
