Mirabilândia

MAGIC CARPET

The sleeping legend tells that Mirabilandia is the sum of the first syllables of the names of the daughters of the owner of a park that exists between Recife and Olinda. There is nothing more pure Brazilian blood: syllables to create another name, another illusion. In cities and in the country where its inhabitants are always on the edge of the abyss, an amusement park can be an amulet so that the suffocation of everyday life is relieved one, two, three hours in a row. The rest of the time, time is real life. The red candy from the love apple doesn’t last forever. Images taken at an amusement park can reflect on the skin of the love apple: from the top of the Ferris wheel you can see the sea. The sea is the wet skin of the city. Between the shock and the scream, the lights come on: tomorrow may come before the skull of the ghost train falls onto a passenger’s lap. We are others when we are at an amusement park. The super tornado is a roller coaster that makes the scream and emotion lick every face. Monsters and superheroes are able to smile. In the Mexican hat, the image rotates: you see each illusion from the inside and the glass eye of the one who sees it from the outside.

Diogenes Moura

Writer | Photography Curator |Editor

 

Exhibition on display from August 23 to October 23, 2022 at Estúdio 41, in São Paulo.

Little feet in the wind
Little feet in the wind
Yellow hat
Yellow hat
Orange hat
Orange hat
Blue hat
Blue hat
Pink hat
Pink hat
The spin of the chairoplane I
The spin of the chairoplane I
Princess heaven
Princess heaven
Green balls
Green balls
Plushies
Plushies
Loving monkey
Loving monkey
Diamond
Diamond
People in the sky
People in the sky
Robo of people
Robo of people
Drops of light
Drops of light
Horses race VI
Horses race VI
Horses race V
Horses race V
Horses race IV
Horses race IV
Horses race III
Horses race III
Horses race II
Horses race II
Horses race I
Horses race I
Orange Thunder
Orange Thunder
Blue Thunder
Blue Thunder
Yellow Thunder
Yellow Thunder
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