Memories of Sand is a process-based artwork. To create it, we issued a call for donated memories—personal, borrowed, or invented—of the legendary Urca Casino and conducted interviews on the streets of the Urca neighborhood. The accounts interwove stories of the casino in the 1940s, the TV Tupi studios (the pioneering Brazilian television network that occupied the building from the 1950s to the 1980s), and the building’s present-day ruins and the fantasies surrounding them. Edited and printed onto plates using digital fabrication (3D printing), all these stories were taken to the beach. Stamped into the sand, they merge and dissolve into the sea. Like the memories of that place.
Memories of Sand | Giselle Beiguelman, 2017.
With the borrowed and invented memories of: Arquivo Marcio Doctors | Beca Vaz Mariano | Edson Ferreira da Silva Jr | Jorge Pescador | José Benonis Rodrigues Rosa | José de Melo Tavares | José Mariano Sobrinho | Kátia Maciel | Maria Helena Pereira de Mello | Maria Tereza Pereira Furtado de Mello | Mardônio Bar Urca | Paula Alzugaray | Regina Celia Coutinho | Rodolpho Villanova | Rosaria de Fátima Alves Martins
Exhibition: A Invenção da Praia – Cassino. Curator: Paula Alzugaray