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Windmaker was originally developed as an interactive installation involving 6 industrial fans, movement sensors, mobile sculptures connected to a computer and a video projection. As the viewer enters the room, she realizes she is provoking the changes in the artwork, but she can’t control them, as one cannot control the blowing of the wind. The work creates a sense of responsability in the spectators and involves them as “co-authors”, while denying them any possibilty of control. The project later generated a single-channel video with the same title. The images follow a woman who struggles to find her place in the relationship to the infinite nature. Project recipient of the São Paulo Arts Council Award to Visual Arts.

'Each person that visits the installation Windmaker is co-author of the narrative that he experiences. Watching a series of video excerpts organized according to the way one walks in the room, facing the bluish image of a woman searching for a meaning in the nature, the interactor will maybe put himself/herself in the place of the character that he/she observes. Maybe he/she will also wander in the darkened room; maybe he/she will question the cold image of the video and the cold produced by the wind; maybe he/she realizes how the movement of light in certain blurred parts of the video is overlapping with the micro-movements of the actress body, giving life to a place of unanimated things, and identifies himself/herself with the erratic movements of his/her own body and the powerful presence of a moving light (the video), which gives life and reflection to a mere exhibition room.'

Juliana Monachesi, 'Timor Mortis Conturbat Me', excerpt