matheus rocha pitta

FEEDS

The Feeds are a series of concrete slabs where images from printed media (usually of gestures) are paired with a slogan. Each letter and clip are distributed in a grid, that by its turn it’s repeated until the “feed” fits perfectly the given “fields” of the grid. It plays both with the contemporary digital usage of language (where images and words conflates towards a chain of hieroglyphic writing) and the ethical dilution of meaning, reached thru the compulsive circulation (or feed) of images. By arresting and spatializing a flow of images/words, it aims to give a snapshot of the actual political status of language.

coming community

**Feed#2 (cry and work)**
Concrete, paper and chinese ink
40 x 40 x 2 cm
2021
View at the exhibition “Thunder in your Throat”, NBK Berlin 2022
Photo: Jens HAU

**Feed#3 (like everybody)**
Concrete, paper and chinese ink
40 x 40 x 2 cm each piece
2021
View at the exhibition “Thunder in your Throat”, NBK Berlin 2022
Photo: Jens HAU

**Feed#4(bitehandfeed)**
concrete, paper and chinese ink
32 x 32 x 2 cm
2021

**Feed#5(pop commandment)**
concrete, paper and chinese ink
40 x 40 x 2 cm each
2022 view at the exhibition Mandamento Pop, at Galeria Athena, 2022

THE CRYING COMMANDMENT

DEU, Hamburg, Harburg, 2023, “Its Human Nature” – Exhibition at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Copyright photo: Fred Dott

The Crying Commandment reverts Andy Warhol’s motto “Don’t Cry, Work!” The affirmation of cry as work blurs the boundaries between pleasure and pain, work and leisure, protest and obedience. If the spontaneity of each singular image is lost thru repetition, the abstract gesture of crying is reinforced, thus becoming an open tool available for use.