Negligência de Hemispatial / Hemispatial Neglect (2011-13)

Filmed over a period of three years, Hemispatial Neglect shows everyday scenes of an undisclosed South American city – a bus station, a bar, the barbershop, a stray dog – amidst the banality of the everyday life. Images of three collapsed and demolished buildings attempt to portray the silent violence that the city has been undergoing as it prepares itself for two major international events. Like a photobook imbued with duration, the work consists mostly of street scenes, of activities and infrastructures that are slowly being pushed out. A single opening paragraph focalizes this argument in time-images, around three typologies of urban destruction: ‘chance, negligence and negation.’ The work title refers to conditions of disordered ‘hemi-spatial’ cognition that sometimes occur after a stroke, where the left side of the brain is reduced of its capacity for perception. While the past and future lie within the unfolding time-image, the artist is aware of neglecting one side, noticing only disappearing layers of