SAO PAULO.- Meteorium is a structure designed specifically for the central space of the Pina Luz building, the Octagon, projecting a three-dimensional panorama divided into eight chambers, with walls and floors painted in reference to natural elements. Artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster invites the public to enter the installation and reimagine its intertwining with the environment.
In this unprecedented project, the public is invited to explore each of the eight chambers of the structure created by the artist, composed of paintings that evoke specific elements of nature: rain, snow, lava, clouds, mud, dust, and petals. Gonzalez-Foerster reveals how meteorological phenomena and natural elements shape not only our physical surroundings, but also our emotional and psychological worlds.
On the second floor, Meteorium II It is made up of musical instruments, including a rainstick and a wind machine, which invite the audience to emit sounds of nature.
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster was born in 1965 in Strasbourg and now lives and works between Paris and Rio de Janeiro. She studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and the École du Magasin in Grenoble before attending classes at the Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques, directed by Pontus Hultén. In the 1990s, she became known as Bedrooms [Rooms], in which he creates biographical environments to discuss identity issues. From 1996 onwards, he also began making films, such as Island of beauty e Rio (1999), in which she records fortuitous moments of urban life: conversations, walks, waiting. Due to the multidisciplinary nature of her work, Dominique regularly collaborates with musicians, filmmakers, architects, and other conceptual and multimedia artists. Among her most recent exhibitions are the 27th São Paulo Biennial in 2006; Skulptur Projekte; and chronotopes & dioramas. In 2010, she created the permanent installation Desert Park [Desert Park], at the Inhotim Institute, in Minas Gerais.
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster dedicates her artistic practice to experimental projects, based on an ongoing investigation into the ways we inhabit time, space, and memory. The artist draws inspiration from a wide range of references—music, literature, film, architecture, and pop culture—creating densely layered environments that transport viewers to narrative, temporal, and alternative dimensions.
The exhibition is curated by Jochen Volz.
"Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: Meteorium" is part of the France-Brazil 2025 Season, which aims to revive the bilateral relationship, which will celebrate its 200th anniversary this year. Initiated by Emmanuel Macron and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the event seeks to strengthen ties between the two countries, organized around three major themes: Climate and Ecological Transition; Societal Diversity and Dialogue with Africa; and Democracy and the Rule of Law.
