During the residency, I gave myself up to drifting (Guy Debord's yo-yo project) in the city. With this idea as a starting point I collected signs and packaging found in the street. I was particularly interested by different strategies used by services to disseminate information to the city's passersby; not the texts so much as the techniques and practices used by businessmen to circulate their product throughout the city. Printed plastic bags, silkscreened signs stapled on posts everywhere and flyers posted in the street were among the things I chose to collect and archive. The idea of service seduced me and I worked with information from my travels, from a phrase picked up upon arriving at the Ezeiza airport to the city's leftovers or debris, gathered after stores closed for the day.

"Power without control is useless"  --Pirelli

(Cazador, SC, Brasil, 1977) 2003: Degree in Visual Arts, currently finishing a Master's degree in Visual Arts (Univ. del Estado de Santa Catarina); courses with Ana Paula Cohen, Rubens Mano, and Dora Longo Bahia. Recent projects (including the organization of shows and publications): 2006: Projetos e Orçamentos Traplev, Galeria Municipal de Criciúma; Fogos de Artifício - Espaço Contramão, Fpolis; 61º Salão Paranaense, Curitiba; Abre Alas, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro; 2005: 10º Salão de Artes Itajaí (1º premio); Novos Laboratórios, production grant - Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Goiás; 2006 residency in Capacete Entretenimentos, Rio de Janeiro. Lives and works in Florianópolis.

Our thanks to the Brazilian Embassy in Argentina for providing the support that made Traplev's residency at El Basilisco possible.