“WHERE DO WE FIND OURSELVES?” is the title of the installation produced by Estúdio Mangava for feverestival 2020 (Campinas International Theater Festival). It was exhibited during the second week of February, about a month before we went into quarantine. The festival's organizers challenged the studio to represent the edition's theme through an interactive installation, which aimed to reaffirm its present, revisit the past, and project the future: what do we want to build from here? What do we want to reinvent? What kind of world project are we seeking? What are our desirable futures?
The studio worked with the goal of discovering, through the intrinsic narrative possibilities of architectural form, how art can present us with desirable futures in response to a dystopian environment that asserts itself with suffocating force. The quest to understand how the future is built and imagined led to the idea of playing with fragments—of perspectives, images, and possibilities.
