Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

Part 2 (2014) is a non-speech moving image work that puts into motion a succession of mostly nocturne images of an industrial landscape. Filmed in Jardim Canadá in the state of Minas Gerais (BRA), the project documents the material conditions on the ground of a once small rural town which has been radically industrialized in the last decade by the mining industry. The artist filmed several discarded objects and debris from several ad hoc landfills located in different sections of Jardim Canadá. Because of the region’s accelerated and under-planned transformation, it does not have a proper systemic waste management, and thus most of the trash and unwanted furniture of the inhabitants are thrown in vacant lots and at times set on fire. Part 2 follows the movement of a pack of street dogs at an eye level exploration of the landfills of Jardim Canadá.

Vijai Patchineelam (1983) was born in Brazil. He is a graduate from the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a Master in Fine Arts at Konstfack University College of Stockholm, Sweden. Earlier this year he concluded a one-year research project at Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Patchineelam mainly works with the mediums of video, photography and books. In 2013 he participated in the 18o Videobrasil Festival and opened two solo exhibitions in 2013. Recently the show Wild Attacks of Cynicism at Ignacio Liprandi Gallery in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and earlier that year the show Cut Corner at Seven Art Gallery in New Delhi, India.