The Clopen Door
the paradoxical fire in the video art of Thiago Rocha Pitta
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https://doi.org/10.35699/2238-2046.2023.46656Keywords:
Fire, National Museum, Video art, Contemporary cultureAbstract
This paper seeks to analyze The Clopen Door (2020), video art created by the visual artist Thiago Rocha Pitta, based on the fire that occurred at the National Museum in 2018. The piece was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro as part of the work Opening Night, which also consisted of installing a kind of bonfire formed by a door surrounded by wooden logs, similar to the one seen in the video. Rocha Pitta refers to the museum by using the fire as a paradoxical element, in order to consider not only the fire episode, but the role of the exhibition space today.
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