Just to counterbalance
1999
“Just to counterbalance” is an exercise of fabulation that starts from a city famous internationally for its lush natural landscape and the 38-meter-high statue of Christ the Redeemer built on top of Corcovado Hill. In contrast to the almost instantaneous association of the city with the monument, the artist proposes a new landscape-monument relationship, not without a good dose of irony, of Hotei, a figure better known as “the laughing Buddha”, distinct from the historical Buddha, with the Gávea Stone, largest monolith by the sea in the world.
