Seringueiros

Seringueiros consists of a series of sculptures made from pulverised recycled tyre rubber. Their forms reproduce the interior volume of buckets traditionally used to collect latex in the Amazon rainforest.

One sculpture remains intact while the others appear partially collapsed, as if the material that once filled them had gradually escaped. Varying in scale, the sculptures occupy the space as vessels suspended between preservation and collapse.

The recycled rubber connects the sculptures to the material extracted from the Amazon and the Congo during the rubber boom of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The project takes as one of its historical references Roger Casement, whose investigations exposed the violence and forced labour that sustained this global trade.

Once a tool of extraction, the bucket reappears as a solid form made from the industrial product that latex eventually became. The sculptures connect the beginning and the end of the material's journey, from the collection of raw latex to the manufacture of tyres.

Artists:

Ravi Agarwal, Aziza Alaoui, Marc Aldinger, Jennifer Allora | Guillermo Calzadilla, Marlene Almeida, Francis Alÿs, Artist Collective SCHAUM, Néle Azevedo, Konstantin Bayer, Joseph Beuys, Richard Box, David Brandstätter, Jens Burde, Vania Caro Melo, Yaacov Chefetz, Colectivo Aninat-Swinburn, Natascha de Cortillas, Ines Doujak, Madhusree Dutta, Sabine und Christian Egelhaaf, Olafur Eliasson | Frederik Ottesen, Steven Emmanuel, Emine Ercihan, Enrico Freitag, Adib Fricke, Klaus Fritze, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Till Krause u.a., Susanne Gabler, Gao Shiqiang, Cornelia Genschow, Emiliano Godoy, Lola Göller, Dionisio González, Nele-Marie Gräber, Tue Greenfort, Sonia Guggisberg, Swaantje Güntzel, Hermann Josef Hack, Henrik Håkansson, Ilkka Halso, He Xiangyu, Christine Henry, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Edi Hirose, Klara Hobza, Norbert Höpfer, Vincent J.F. Huang, Alejandro Jaime, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Martin Kaltwasser, Saori Kaneko | Richard Welz, Christoph Keller, Anneli Ketterer, Tagit Klimor, Folke Köbberling, Folke Köbberling | Martin Kaltwasser, James Kudo, Christian Kuhtz, Eugen Kunkel, Christin Lahr, Antal Lakner, Sigalit Landau, Jae Rhim Lee, Till Leeser, Dana Levy, Sarah Lewison, Marlen Liebau | Marc Lingk, Gustavo Lipkau, Rudolf zur Lippe, Susanne Lorenz | Dr. Stephan Pflugmacher, Ma Yongfeng, Marcus Maeder, Petra Maitz, Renzo Martens, Ayumi Matsuzaka, Vera Meyer, MITKUNSTZENTRALE, Ida Möller | Renate U. Schürmeyer, Lucia Monge, Claudia Müller, Guisela Munita, Manish Nai, Erez Nevi Pana, Gerd Niemöller, Eliana Otta, Shirley Paes Leme, Heide Pawelzik, Dan Peterman, Nana Petzet, Clement Price-Thomas, Alejandra Prieto, José De Quadros, Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez, Rebecca Raue, Peter Reichenbach, Dodi Reifenberg, Pedro Reyes, Ariel Rojo, Gustavo Romano, Miguel Rothschild, Sharmila Samant, Otmar Sattel, Michael Saup, Michal Schmidt, Susanne Schmitt | Cornelia Ertl, Hannah Schneider, Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Linda Schumann | Tonia Schmitz, Dina Shenhav, Robert Smithson, David Smithson, Studio Lukas Feireiss und Tomorrow’s Thoughts Today mit Luis Berríos-Negrón, Superflex, Jakub Szczesny, Roberto Uribe Castro, Maria Vedder, Wang Jiuliang, Andreas Wegner, Natalia Wehler, Gal Weinstein, Charlett Wenig | Johanna Hehemeyer-Cürten, Gudrun F. Widlok, Xing Danwen, Xu Bing, The Yes Men, Yang Shaobin, ZuhauseKraftwerk - Schwarmstrom, Zwischenbericht