Book, Exosphere[LS]
Book, Exosphere[LS]
Descrição
By Virna Teixeira Faced with such a desolate collective moment, Flavia Rocha achieves a feat. Write desolation. The testimony of Exosfera is from an astronaut, whose gender we do not know, who stands back and observes the Earth, in 2121, “a year without its own semblance”. In this “trampled mass of events”, he reflects on the destruction of Evolutionary Botanical Diversity, in the mission of cataloging debris, with the experience expanded in the exosphere of collection. The look like a camera, sometimes like a drone, sometimes like a visual archive, hovers over current and old images. Fires, endangered species, a couple hugging a lifeboat, the ancestors who once lived near a dormant forest. How to return, how to establish a distant contact, between neutralities of false coldness? “Why is it so difficult to talk about love?” In this long-awaited journey, the wisest attitude seems to be to choose branches from almost extinct branches. Hold on to the days that remain. Practice detachment, inside this capsule. Because “it is not human to live like this”, in this hollow freedom, against the lack of oxygen. To overcome this suffocation we need poetry and art more than ever. To air the collective exhaustion of so many losses. And return to this hiatus of what is about to happen, at the exit from this long vacuum.