“I never thought of doing anything like that,” he tells us, between the fun and the perplexed, Alexandre Hearty, ie Vhils, one of the best-known Portuguese artists of our time, which has just become the first artist to create an installation to the International Space Station (ISS). “From one point it became difficult to happen because of a number of permits, but eventually succeed and was a surprise.”
A joint initiative of the European Space Agency (ESA) in the context of project-film The Meaning of Life by Miguel Gonçalves Mendes, on September 2 was placed within one Vhils facility, designed especially for the dome of the International Space Station, the only place where you can have the privilege of seeing the planet earth in all its fullness.
The installation depicts Andreas Mogensen, the first Danish astronaut to go into space. Due to the rotation of the space station on earth, you can see from the summit the rising and setting of the sun about 16 times a day. The work of Vhils incorporates in its initial conception the nuances that the rotation of the planet earth and its geography project on the astronaut’s face. “It’s a piece ephemeral every second, because the context is always changing will,” he says. “I thought a piece for the ship’s space, but that does not impose the place.”
Earlier this month, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the astronaut departed towards the International Space Station. The Dane is one of seven real characters in the film The Meaning of Life , the ambitious project that Miguel Gonçalves Mendes walks developing since the beginning of the year and promises to debut in 2017. “It’s been an extremely adventure grueling, emotionally and physically, because we are a small team, but is worth it, “he tells us from Rio de Janeiro.
The Vhils installation will be integrated in the documentary as well as the other interventions that the artist was asked to create around the remaining characters. Produced by Brazilian Fernando Meirelles ( The City of God , Blindness ), and with a budget of 1.5 million euros, the new draft Miguel Gonçalves Mendes , known for the documentary José and Pilar (2010), has as its protagonist Giovane Brisotto young Brazilian family Amyloidosis carrier (disease of the feet), incurable and rare of Portuguese origin, that spread around the world during the Age of Discovery.
The film follows the true story of Giovane a trip around the world in what is supposed to be the route that will spread the disease 500 years ago. Parallel to the course of the journey, the viewer is confronted with the daily seven public figures, including the judge Baltasar Garzón, the writer Valter Hugo Mother, costume designer Emi Wada, the musician and Icelandic composer Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson or Morgensen astronaut.
Among the invited figures, but unconfirmed, Francis is the pope. The music will be in charge of Japanese composer Shigeru Umebayashi, known for the soundtracks of some Wong Kar-wai movies like In The Mood For Love (2000), 2046 (2004) or The Grandmaster (2013).
“On one hand we have a self-discovery trip of Giovane, and the other reports of important figures, in order to try realize what unites us as humanity, at a time when the system is collapsing and no longer believe in anything, a demand where there is disease factor and the urgency to live, “said Miguel Gonçalves Mendes.
It is a film about life, and inevitably over death, a search for the meaning of existence. There are days, Giovane, which is really the bearer of family Amyloidosis, underwent surgery and is now recovering. The team has filmed in various countries since the beginning of the year, having been in September in Kazakhstan filming the astronaut’s departure for the International Space Station. Before they had been at the North American Space Agency (NASA) in Houston, in the United States, following its preparation. In the film should also be included images that astronaut caught in space, beyond the Vhils installation-movie.
“I admire Miguel because not afraid to try to capture complicated, many of them larger than life. Revi me in the project concept, the story that is behind and the team that is involved. The challenge of creating a piece in orbit, to the viewing area of the ship, came in above the knee, but it was undeniable, “says Vhils. “What created has points of contact with parts that had already exposed at the Museum of Electricity – parts placed in front of televisions, stencils that are drilled, like a printed repeatedly movie, but how Clearly all this will make the other direction when the documentary is finished. “
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