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DRIVE THRU filming team (from left to right):
Erik Culver, Matheus Rocha Pitta, Arlinda Abbott, Santiago Ferrero, Chris Hubbert, and Kristina Felix.
Photo: Ursula Davila-Villa
IFC Residency: Matheus Rocha-Pitta, October 1 – November 30, 2007
Mattheus Rocha-Pitta produced a three-part project titled Drive Thru. The project culminated in a three-part video edited in Brazil, and focused on the displacement and circulation of commodities created by a capitalist system. The car, dirt, and bricks used during the shooting of the video became a sculpture that was on view in the parking lot of the Creative Research Lab from November 2007 through March 2008.
Matheus Rocha-Pitta (Minas Gerais, 1980) studied history at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and philosophy at the Universidade Estadual do Rio do Janeiro. His work focuses on the displacements and discontinuities of contemporary life, be it commodities, landscape, or individual transactions. He uses the images that circulate in newspapers as source of inspiration by appropriating them as objects of consumption and transforms their content into artwork. For Rocha-Pitta metropoleis around the world are a source of material ideas that mirror the discontinuities of contemporary life. His interest focuses in spaces such as ruins, basements, and parking lots. He believes that such places represent true discontinuities within big cities given that their meaning is only valid in the context of bigger networks at a specific moment in time.