It Bites Back AV Installation,
Gasworks London, 2019
It Bites Back
Gasworks London, 2019
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Presented as an audio-visual installation, It Bites Back features a 10 multi channel sound piece by HAUT and three interconnected films by Pedro Neves Marques. The installation brings together two apparently distinct images of epidemics, addressing clashes among politics of nature, technology, and gender.
2016 saw the rise of the Zika virus epidemic. In Brazil and elsewhere, terror in the face of viral infection was expressed in the language of military invasion. The immune system became a battlefield and the mosquito carrying the virus was declared an enemy of the nation. In parallel, the country experienced a resurgence of reactionary politics that led to the election of Jair Bolsonaro, an outspoken admirer of the military dictatorship. Drawing attention to how nature and culture mirror and reshape one another, these two apparently disconnected events serve as point of departure for this exhibition by artist, filmmaker and writer Pedro Neves Marques, developed in collaboration with London-based music producer HAUT.