TREADING

AN ART THAT TRANSFORMS

The project TRILHAR A ARTE QUE TRANSFORMA (Treading – an art that transforms) takes the public to tread the paths whereby art transforms Earth’s various elements into works of extreme beauty (fine art) and to get in contact with processes that convey sustainability (Creative Economy).

It is no coincidence that the Trilhar project chose art as a paradigm, since in all its different forms of expression art helps us elaborate our thoughts and build and resignify things, objects and feelings. It exercises our imagination and calls attention to the importance of our history and our memories to the way we live in society.

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THE MINISTRY OF TOURISM, THE SPECIAL DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AND CTG BRASIL PRESENT:

COLLECTIVE CREATION

A BETTER AND
SUSTAINABLE WORLD

MUSEUM AND CONVENTION HALL PROFESSORA NARA LÚCIA NONATO
ILHA SOLTEIRA - SP

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC DEC 3 - DEC 31, 2022
MON: FRI 8 A.M. - 5 P.M.
SAT: 2 P.M. - 10 P.M.
SUN: 4 P.M - 8 P.M.

Curator

Rubens Fernandes Junior

Rubens Fernandes Junior, photography researcher and curator. PhD in Communications and Semiotics, São Paulo Pontifical Catholic University (PUC), 2002. Currently Director and Communications Professor at Armando Alvares Penteado college (FAAP).

Curator for the exhibitions O Labirinto da Luz – fotos de Orlando Azevedo (Labyrinth of light – the photos of Orlando Azevedo), MON, Curitiba, 2022; Um Olhar Moderno (A modern outlook), São Paulo, by Theodor Preising, Unibes, São Paulo (2021); O que os Olhos Alcançam (What the eyes can see), photos by Cristiano Mascaro, Sesc Pinheiros, São Paulo (2019); Mosaico do Tempo – 70 anos de fotografia de German Lorca (Mosaic of time - 70 years of German Lorca’s photography), Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (2017), among others.

Awarded the Cultural Merit in Photography Prize, from the Brazilian Photography Cultural Producers Network in 2020; the Marc Ferrez Photography Prize in 2014; Best exhibition/ curatorship award from the Paulista Art Critics Association for the exhibitions A(s) simetrias, fotografias de Geraldo de Barros (A(s)symmetries, the photos of Geraldo de Barros), Brito Cimino Gallery, São Paulo, 2006; and Mario Cravo Neto Fotografias (The photography of Mario Cravo Neto), at the São Paulo Art Museum, 1995.

Author of the books Yalenti – fotografias de José Yalenti, Madalena publishers, 2018; Papéis Efêmeros da Fotografia, Tempo D’Imagem publishers, Fortaleza (2015); Geraldo de Barros - Fotoformas e Sobras, Cosac Naify Publishers, São Paulo (2006); Labirinto e Identidades – Fotografia Brasileira Contemporânea, Cosac Naify Publishers, São Paulo (2003); O Século XIX na Fotografia Brasileira, Francisco Alves Publishers, Rio de Janeiro (2000); and others.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION OF THE STUDENTS OF THE MUNICIPAL PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF ILHA SOLTEIRA

A BETTER AND
SUSTAINABLE WORLD

With this exhibition, where the main characters are the students from some public schools in the city of Ilha Solteira and surroundings, we close the successful Trilhar project - the art that transforms, which was based on three pillars that are on the agenda of the contemporary world: Biodiversity, Sustainability, and Heritage.

More than 1300 students were involved in a bold interdisciplinary educational project that also involved teachers and the community, with the aim of expanding the knowledge of children and teenagers through visits to the exhibitions held at the Professor Nara Lúcia Nonato Museum and Convention Center.

The program has achieved its main goal - to be an instrument of social transformation through art and culture. The Trilhar project focused its action on its educational potential from the exhibitions held - The Waters by Araquém Alcântara; From Discard to Art, marquetry works by Danilo Branco, and Sustainable Ceramics - from soil to object - Women Ceramists, curated by Fernando Zelman. Throughout the semester these exhibitions were visited by thousands of students, who were impacted by the works - photography, marquetry, and ceramic sculpture. Part of them participated in specific creation and awareness workshops, which aimed to sensitize and inspire the students.

The groups created their visual works from the exhibitions, which we now have the opportunity to show, even partially, to the community. It is incredible to see how this rich experience of collective work from specific stimuli has awakened in each student a consciousness of citizenship and of being socially responsible.

We see what we are, and what we are depends on what we see. From this articulation between seeing and being, t he students were invited to participate in activities outside their class routine and stimulated to freely foster their creativity. Illustration, watercolor, collage, and sculpture workshops, four expressive languages that boosted the memory and identity of the community. The result is this exhibition that values the activity developed and the self-esteem of everyone who got involved with the project.

With some certainty, we can say that each student who took this journey of knowledge and awareness crossed a new frontier that will take them to other crossings. Now, in their dreams, there will always be the prospect of better understanding this great mother we call Earth. We are interdependent. In each gesture, in each observation, in each new experience, will be marked by the time lived in the past months.

Telling a story is always including in it our memories that will be forever marked by the respect for nature and heritage. This is what inspired the Trilhar project and all those involved: to idealize and dream of a more promising future. To think and share the magic of life in a much broader, richer, and more interesting way.

THE DIVISION OF THE EXHIBITION AREA
A sustainable society presupposes a critical awareness of the existential relationship between needs and consumption. In the contemporary world, surely, we are stimulated to consume, we are driven to put having before being. Facing this paradox in which we live, the Trilhar Educational Project sought to encourage students to realize the importance of preserving nature and the result of predatory human action. The incredible result of this observation action can be seen in the works selected here. It is possible, through education, to sediment the idea that we are part of a rare ecosystem and that its protection will ensure our survival on planet Earth.
The ecosystem that ensures our survival is everything that connects us around this magical planet we inhabit. The students who participated in this section understood perfectly that the different forms of life are related to the environment, which in turn is dependent on human action. The synchronicity between these variables is what establishes the minimum rules for coexistence so that biodiversity is full. If we interfere little in the environment and in the living species - flora and fauna - we can glimpse a promising future. It is wonderful how the students perceived the essence of the Trilhar Educational Project, that is, the complex experience of preserving biodiversity, an inexhaustible source of life and inspiration. This attitude has enabled the creation of powerful and poetic images that translate the fullness of the educational action.
The identity and culture of a community are associated with its material heritage (architecture, rivers, lakes, forests, for example) and its immaterial heritage (typical foods, sounds, smells, legends, for example). Knowing how to identify and appropriate these values is fundamental to building and valuing the Heritage. This is why it is important to make citizens aware of their responsibility towards the community. The students of this core had the opportunity to experience the biomes of Ilha Solteira, the intersection between the Cerrado and the Atlantic Forest biomes. Of course, this core has a connection to Sustainability and Biodiversity, which is dealt with in other cores. The division was only necessary for methodological reasons, but the coexistence of these three pillars established by the Trilhar Educational Project made the importance of interdisciplinarity perceptible, which developed the feeling of belonging and established new affective relationships with the material and immaterial richness of Ilha Solteira and its surroundings.

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