Imagens Circulares ︙ Wayner Tristão
Roda de brinquedo
Prometeu
Danaides
"Danaides" shows a character that was sentenced to death in water with atone without funds. This is a Greek mythology that, considering its beauty, were the themes of several artists addressing the moment of pouring into the water. The constant, endless act causes a reflection on the loss of time with an unreachable action. In the same way it is possible to think in a loop, as a forced repetition of wasted energy, a simple number of ideas and movements in the world already flooded with images like the Internet. A work of the same name features a wet figure with its hose, another supported hand or umbrella, signaling a falling rain. The act of repeating an external action and releasing the obligation to achieve the objective, can thus use this non-action in offering other applied subjectivities, reflecting on other events. Returns to the trance state, like a meditation without regard to the reality.
Janus II
Atlas
Gira
Capoeira
Ciranda
The point is how to use a gif language to destroy the linear way of progress or how to put some contemplative way in some image so instantaneous.
Nowadays I’m producing animations more distended in time, which causes a narrative. In case of this shorts I´m talking about my life, some memories. but I think the narrative broke the possibility of contemplation, like a poetry cinema of Pasolini.
Guri pedra nagua
Quarantine has been a very strange time to create, first you have all the time of the world to create and produce, but on the other hand, you have some kind of anxiety that paralyze. We have a huge shift in Brazil in our population and culture. Now I´m living in the northwest region, which represents the poorest people, an arid place that molds the culture and the ways of seeing and creating. Now this population is revolting against the political system, demanding more equality.
Piscina ladosubvia
About Wayner Tristão
Wayner Tristão transposes everyday movements into looped animations (GIFs) that capture daily life in his home country, Brazil. He weaves in mythology and abstraction, creating wonderful moments and an inventive form of storytelling. Tristão is an assistant professor at the Universidade Federal do Vale do Sao Francisco - UNIVASF, Brazil. His work explores cinema and new media, combining elements of drawing and digital art to create short animations. Tristão has been published in many art magazines and participated in international symposiums. He has received many awards both national and international for short animations and directorial concepts. Tristão is now concluding his PHD in cyclic images at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ.
Website: www.wtristao.tumblr.com
Instagram: @w_tristao
