Antiprojeto

Antiprojeto was an art collective founded in Fortaleza in the late 2000s by Valentino Kmentt and Jaime Custódio, a pioneer of videomapping in Ceará. The idea was to occupy abandoned public spaces — old mansions, ruins, unfinished buildings — and turn them into texture and surface for the light of the projectors, through video installations and the first experiments with video mapping as an intervention in the city.

Awarded by Funarte's Interações Estéticas grant, the collective hit the road: two months travelling across Brazil by car, projecting onto whatever turned up along the way — the columns of a seafront structure in Natal, abandoned train carriages in Paranapiacaba, roadwork barriers on the BR-116 highway, the rocks of a beach in Trindade — and creating together with artists in Belo Horizonte. The trip produced a new series of works, experiments and exchanges with artists from several cities in the country.

Much of the material gathered during the trip was lost. What appears on this page is what survived from that period, with images taken from the collective's own videos.

Misteria was born from that journey. Projection as an intervention in space, research done collectively and on the move, and the habit of treating any surface in the city as material for a work all come from Antiprojeto.

Collective founded by Valentino Kmentt and Jaime Custódio.