Home > ZWYX Diffusion > MALYSSE >

'The Bioperversity Project' by MALYSSE

Titre: The Bioperversity Project
Date: 2010
Place: Saõ Paolo, Brazil

The Bioperversity Project ("Bioperversidade" in Portuguese) is a group of work by MALYSSE in which the sculptor-photographer performs bio unpleasant gestures on live plants. At the same time a herbarium and a minimalist sculpture, flirting with Arte Povera or Ecotrash Art, this work provokes an ecological surge in the eye of the viewer and shows that plants suffer. Through videos and other medias, mixing sculpture, photography, painting, it turns the concept of a garden into a bioperversity studio-laboratory.

 

VIDEO SERIES

  • Bioperversity #1 - video by S. Malysse
    Ecotrash Gesture No.1
    Action Bio-Desagréable No.1
    Gesto Bio-Desagrádavel: No.1

  • Bioperversity #2 - video by S. Malysse
    Ecotrash Gesture No.2
    Action Bio-Desagréable No.2
    Gesto Bio-Desagrádavel: No.2

  • Bioperversity #3 - video by S. Malysse
    Ecotrash Gesture No.3
    Action Bio-Desagréable No.3
    Gesto Bio-Desagrádavel: No.3

  • Bioperversity #4 - video by S. Malysse
    Ecotrash Gesture No.4
    Action Bio-Desagréable No.4
    Gesto Bio-Desagrádavel: No.4

 

SELECTION OF PHOTOS FROM EXHIBITIONS

  • photo by S. Malysse
    2010

  • photo by S. Malysse
    2010

  • photo by S. Malysse
    2010

  • photo by S. Malysse
    2010

  • photo by S. Malysse
    2013

  • photo by S. Malysse
    2013

  • photo by S. Malysse
    2013

  • photo by S. Malysse
    2013

 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stéphane MALYSSE is an artist, anthropologist and art critic, living and working in São Paulo (Brazil). MALYSSE teaches Art and Anthropology at the University of Sao Paulo (EACH/USP).

Info & bibliography about MALYSSE @ ZWYX.org

EXTERNAL LINKS
Information on the web about The Bioperversity Project.

Interview of MALYSSE by Flavia Brunetti - 2012, in Portuguese

Bioperversidade : exhibition - march/april 2014 @ Epicentro Cultural, Saõ Paolo, Brazil (video trailer)