Coroas

Statement

In the series “Coroas”, a project that integrates the Sizígia (meaning syzygies) project, Uiler Costa-Santos proposes an encounter between technique and poetry through aerial photography in areas of the Todos-os-Santos Bay, a coastal region of Bahia marked by many cultural and historical markings. Sizígias are moments of connection in which sea, soil and rivers build new geographical markings, or even where space-time reacts to the movement of the cosmos to produce reliefs and maps. It is in the Sizígias where the landscape is transmuted that we perceive everyday life and its constant capacity for creation.

In the “Coroas” series, what this abstraction game reveals to us is the presence of a sophisticated fishing technology.

Known as “Pesqueiros”, the engineering of these areas is made through the use of an ancestral knowledge of fishing. The wooden circles are structured by the connection with the low and high tides of the sea and reveal the possibility of understanding fishing not as a means of exploration and extraction of natural resources, but as a form of relationship between humans and non-humans.

The artist constructs these landscapes through imagination and the game of movements that the sea provides to human practices when these two forms of life come to inhabit the same plane of experience. In its radical limit, the “pesqueiros” allow us to fable other options for the impasses brought by the present when we discuss the ways of knowledge, inhabiting and existing.