A MISCELÂNEA PAULISTANAPUBLICATION


A MISCELÂNEA PAULISTANA

PUBLICATION
w/h Vendedores de Humo
w/h Luisa Lozano
2014

An interest in the stimulating complexity of the city of São Paulo gave rise to the idea of creating a conceptual collage; a miscellany of signs and meanings, made under the pretext of continuing to know, document and understand the city on a macro scale. Taking Schott's Miscellany* as a reference, we have the prospect of generating an accumulation of irrelevant information and "fabulous trivia", selected from the elements that make up the city on the basis of an aesthetic and critical criterion. In this way, we want to ironise encyclopaedic knowledge, tourist guides and an imaginary fed by lists, rankings, over-information...