Diogo Evangelista - The Sky Exists
The Sky Exists, a work commissioned by MAAT, presents a video transmission with a permanent sunrise in a loop. Invaded by technical interferences and information typically found on a news broadcast or an urban outdoor, the video suggests an unstable condition. In fact, it constitutes a fictional recreation of a false piece of news gone viral. In it, it was reported that, due to the high level of pollution, the sunrise would be transmitted live in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. From this idea, the artist feigns an extreme meteorological condition that points to a pre-apocalyptic planet. Alerting us to current ecological issues, the narrative suggests a dystopic reality where everything seems to fail and the population has lost track of their essential references.
2018 Spinning Wheel, CAC, Vilnius
2017 Utopia/Dystopia – A Paradigm Shift, MAAT, Lisbon
