Vendas de sorvete provocam ataques de tubarão Roberto Winter

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Vendas de sorvete provocam ataques de tubarão, Roberto Winter
By the end of the 19th century, during the transition period known as the Industrial Revolution, the eight-hour day movement emerged in England. Its main demand was the reduction of the workday to eight hours (at a time when working ten to sixteen hours a day was the norm). According to a rational division of the day in three equal periods, the slogan used by the movement was Eight hours labour, Eight hours recreation, Eight hours rest. More than just a rational redistribution of time, its radical aspect maybe resided in the objective of recovering time itself. 

Ice cream sales cause shark attacks, the first solo show by Roberto Winter at Mendes Wood DM, takes its title from the text of the artwork False correlation. The text is an example of a logical fallacy that attributes a cause-effect relationship to two events that merely happen at the same time. Amongst other possibilities, the existence of a third element, initially ignored, may be the origin of the mistake. In this case, summer. 

And in the entire exhibition, summer; that is, whichever this third element might be. An element, whose presence is usually only perceptible when it becomes palpable in absence, or yet, when its existence is magnified by subtraction. A scale without gravity, a screw without thread, a genome without organism, a cube without space, a space without dimensions or life without time. In a period of crisis (therefore transition), in which the relationships between labor, recreation and rest become increasingly less obvious. 
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