This project was conceived in 2013 by photographer Zé Paiva at the invitation of Valdemir Klamt, coordinator of the education area at SESC SC. The central concept of the exhibition, a long-standing dream of Zé Paiva, is to provide knowledge about the wild animals of southern Brazil, especially for children in the public school system, the target audience of the exhibition.
A mostra é formada pelas doze fotos acima e mais seis painéis de textos com informações sobre os animais redigidos pela bióloga e escritora Márcia Riederer (autora do livro “Animals of our land“). O próprio Zé fez a curadoria a partir do seu acervo. Esta exposição começou a circular pelo estado de Santa Catarina em 2014. Até agora já passou por 23 cidades e foi vista por quase 80 mil pessoas. Oscar Rivas é o autor do design gráfico da exposição. Cada um dos painéis de texto contém também uma frase do naturalista alemão Fritz Müller, que viveu no Brasil no século XIX.
Esta exposição começou a circular pelo estado de Santa Catarina em 2014. Até agora já passou por 23 cidades e foi vista por quase 80 mil pessoas.
See here how the first exhibition went, in São Miguel do Oeste, and one of the most recent, in São João Batista.
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Texto dO curador
Until the Renaissance, many scientists were also artists and vice versa. A well-known example was Leonardo Da Vinci (1452 – 1519), a mix of scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, poet and musician. Especially after the Industrial Revolution, society began to increasingly specialize and thus science and art became increasingly dissociated.
In this exhibition, we seek to combine the art of photography with scientific knowledge about the animals portrayed. To this end, we sought inspiration from the German naturalist Fritz Müller, who in addition to being a scientist was a poet, philosopher, teacher, doctor, farmer and excellent artist.
In Brazil, we know more about African animals than about those native to our country. This exhibition seeks to fill this gap by displaying animals from the southern region: some rare, others more common, some threatened with extinction, others not, some better known, others less so, but all capable of captivating our sympathy.
All animals are part of an immense web called nature, which is not something dissociated from our world, whether we live in urban areas or not. On the contrary, all the balance of life on Earth depends on nature, because everything on the planet is interconnected. We call this ecology, from the Latin oikos – home and logos – study, ciência que estuda as interações entre os organismos e seu ambiente.
Every animal, from the enormous whale to the tiny ant, has its role in this web of life. Our survival on the planet depends on this balance, because for life to be possible we need water, air, and food. We also have a place in this web of life, in all of our daily actions. It is urgent that we become aware of our role in this scenario and not see nature as something distant and beautiful to be only appreciated.
Zé Paiva
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