Fotografia de Felippe Moraes mostrando uma árvore levemente inclinada com peso de 16 kg aplicado.

Felippe Moraes
16kg para entortar uma árvore (16kg to Bend a Tree), 2012
Fine art photographic print
110 × 110 & 35 × 35 cm (diptych)

Fotografia de Felippe Moraes mostrando uma árvore levemente inclinada com peso de 16 kg aplicado.
Fotografia de Felippe Moraes mostrando uma árvore levemente inclinada com peso de 16 kg aplicado.

16kg para entortar uma árvore (16kg to Bend a Tree, 2012) presents a photographic diptych documenting a minimal intervention in the landscape. A sixteen-kilogram weight is applied to a tree so as to produce a slight tilt. The gesture starts from a precise, measurable fact, yet its visual effect remains ambiguous, blurring into the tree’s natural growth.

The work creates a paradox between objective measurement and sensory perception. The presence of the scale reveals that a real force was exerted, yet its action barely registers in the image. The viewer is told about the experiment, but the photograph offers no sufficient visual evidence to confirm the phenomenon.

Between document and fictional construction, the work investigates the limits of photography as proof of reality. The intervention exists, but its visibility is uncertain. By articulating landscape, measurement and record, the work suggests that what we perceive as natural may result from discreet gestures that remain invisible to the immediate eye.

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