MAYO was invited by LAMA.SP to participate in an exhibition and architectural intervention in São Paulo, Brazil.At the heart of the project was a monumental intervention on the façade of the megacity’s skyscraper “Mirante do Vale” (View over the Valley). Spanning 32 floors, the artist and his team installed an orange construction safety net, a material commonly used in the building industry. For four months—and in parallel with the São Paulo Biennale—this intervention became a highly visible landmark: a manifesto for an art practice that does not merely occupy urban space, but transforms it and renders it newly perceptible.
In addition, MAYO realized an exhibition on the 32nd floor of the building, presenting a series of twelve large-scale collages. The works were composed exclusively of photographs of buildings from Brazilian Modernism in São Paulo’s Centro, taken by Leonardo Finotti, LAMA’s co-author and widely regarded as the most important Brazilian architectural photographer of his generation.
Constructed between 1959 and 1960, the building remains Brazil’s tallest skyscraper to this day.
2015
Installation / Art Exhibition, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Collaboration: Leo Finotti
Architecure: Aron Logan und Waldomiro Zarzur Architekten.
