A
project developed by visual artist Romeu Silveira during his residency
at the Cité internationale des arts, in Paris, between January and March
2020. The book is an inventory of events and images that collide and
affect each other within a montage based on the overlapping of
temporalities and senses. It is a visual diary produced in the tension
of a world that was about to close and change completely because of the
pandemic. It is a research that takes as a starting point the
possibilities of translation of the word "contretemps", both in French
and Portuguese, to generate an experimental process that reveals itself
in series of collages, photographic series, objects, sound
installations, video performances, artist books and interventions in
printed media.The book Contretemps can also be found in the collection
of the photography books library of the Instituto Moreira Salles in São
Paulo, in the collection of the Roméo Martinez library of the MEP-Maison
Européenne de la photographie and in the library of contemporary art of
the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
“The book is a fast-paced visual journey with each page jam-packed with a collage of elements – classic street photography of Paris, sketchbook pages, barcodes, pictures yanked from the internet, self-portraits, artworks gleaned from the city’s museums and galleries, and even pictures from back home. The immediacy, the urgency of now remains clear, as Silveria’s work reads like a diary, a confessional, but also full of incredible confidence and charisma.”
—BRIAN ARNOLD, C4 Journal
“The book is a fast-paced visual journey with each page jam-packed with a collage of elements – classic street photography of Paris, sketchbook pages, barcodes, pictures yanked from the internet, self-portraits, artworks gleaned from the city’s museums and galleries, and even pictures from back home. The immediacy, the urgency of now remains clear, as Silveria’s work reads like a diary, a confessional, but also full of incredible confidence and charisma.”
—BRIAN ARNOLD, C4 Journal
