BYŌBU

The poetics of this essay used photogrammetry and digital collage techniques, creating a universe of volumes and textures, drawing visualities in transition between abstractions and figurations. The Japanese word Byōbu (屏風) is the source of "biombo," a term known in Portuguese. A biombo is a type of panel of Chinese origin, an artifact used to separate interior spaces, insulate against drafts, or as extensive, folding, decorative surfaces, often supporting landscape paintings. In this essay, we take on similar functions: an aesthetic object and a delimiter of spaces. However, here, the apparently deteriorated three-dimensional piece is a revealing element of invisible universes, natural or artificial, that occupy simultaneous volumes. The essay advances an experimental aesthetic investigation whose poetics are based on visualities reconstructed from the physical interpenetration of urban spaces, from the places that delimit traffic and shelter the anonymous survival of bodies.