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As part of the Tunnel Vision project, which accompanies an artist through the process of research, creation and production, Jonas Van presents an audiovisual installation in collaboration with the artist Juno B.

Kebranto – in Brazilian Portuguese – is a spell. Cast from the eyes, the spell breaks the spirit in pieces, preventing it from moving. Kebranto is a gesture that is filled with magical power, reminding us that our bodies, and the energy within them, are powerful. Kebranto is a decristallization of cisgenerity, operating through other pacts.

The decomposition of organic matter, whether it be dead plants or animals, releases gases that spontaneously ignite upon contact with the air. These flames, carried by air currents, create the will-o’-the-wisp. According to the Tupi Guarani cosmoperception, in the north and northeast of Brazil, this fire is the Boitatá entity: a fire serpent that feasts on eyes.

The artists present a documentary fiction based on the idea that the Boitatá serpent is the ancestor of trans and gender disobedient bodies. A possibility of bodily and temporal transmutation from the encounter with the serpent, which, by looking at other beings, changes them irreversibly.

Jonas Van (1989, BR) is a Brazilian transviado artist and curator based in Geneva. His practice is a radical exercise in questioning cisnormative power structures, creating queer ecologies using video and sound, ephemeral installation and text. His work proposes monstrosity as a fictional and deeply intimate narrative, a linguistic and temporal fracture from an anti-colonial perspective. His project for Tunnel Vision has two parts: Kebranto and Spelling Desire.

Juno B is a multi-faceted artist, based in São Paulo, whose work oscillates between video, art direction and graphic design. Via his works, he proposes formal and material experiments, reflections and dialogues through narratives and possibilities of being in the non-hegemonic world.

With the support of Fonds culturel Sud – artlink