COCOON
2019
Video installation (single-channel with audio, 4K)
Recipient of the ZUM Photography Prize, Institute Moreira Salles
Variable dimensions / Loop 33’47”
Participative project and video done with a group of 15 patients at the Institut of Psychiatry of The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with focus on the perception and the routine after hospitalisation, Cocoon tries to make visible the territory assigned to madness, its displacement from the hospital environment to other spaces in society. The metaphor of the cocoon is chosen to approach the issue of psychiatric closure as a territory whose temporality and spatiality cannot be generalized or previously defined, a territory that only exists if in a constant state of transformation.
We are prisoners of the cocoon, but mostly we are prisoners of our perception of the cocoon. The cocoon sets limits. We are prisoners of our sensibility, which is the borderline of everything. Our sensibility always expands and the cocoon is bound to be broken.
Ilmar Gastão Cavalho Filho (participant of the Casulo project)
the process
“A senha é o sonho”, de Ilmar Gastão Carvalho Filho, participante
Cocoon
All texts written and read (or said) by the participants of the Cocoon Project, members of the group A Voz dos Usuários and patients from the Psychiatry Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro IPUB - UFRJ. They are:
Antonio Carlos dos Santos
Elizabeth Sabino dos Santos
Guilherme Carey Matos da Silva
Luiz Eduardo Mendonça de Souza
Maria Aparecida Lopes do Nascimento
Milton Penna de Oliveira Santos
Olga Maria Matos Salazar
Orlando dos Santos Baptista
Orlando Vinicius Dias Mara de Barros
Renato Moraes Ponte
Veríssimo Bernardo de Lima Filho
and
In memoriam
Antonio Afonso da Costa
Dalila Meira de Azevedo Marques
João Baptista dos Santos
Ilmar Gastão de Carvalho Filho
Concept, Realization, Direction and Editing:
Dias & Riedweg
Direction Assistance:
Juliana Franklin
Anna Costa e Silva
External Recording Assistance:
Vitória Dias Girard
Julia Turnes Rufino
Aerial camera:
Luan de Souza Silva
Underwater camera:
Vitor Luiz Dias Girard
Photographic camera:
Anna Luiza Braga
4K Video Cameras:
Dias & Riedweg
Juliana Franklin
Anna Costa e Silva
Project Supervision at IPUB:
Dr. Julio Verztman
Group Supervisor of A Voz dos Usuários:
Dr. Octavio Domont de Serpa Junior
The Casulo project was carried out with the support of The ZUM Photography Scholarship / Instituto Moreira Salles