KADIJA & CHICO create situations and happenings that take place in structures and functional objects they build with found materials to question the value of resources, labour and social practices. Interested in degrowth as a political and economic movement that can help us survive the catastrophic Anthropocene, they research consumption habits and disposal processes to challenge how we produce,
accumulate and waste an abundant surplus
of resources. Their works propose others ways to use, exchange and share what we have, by blurring the limits of art and life through a continuous individual and institutional critique of what is understood, practiced, encouraged and reproduced as the social norm.
© Kadija de Paula & Chico Togni, Ebeltoft, Denmark, 2020.
REMIX CHAIR, and EBELTOFT. IT’S GONNA BE AWESOME!, 2020 Kadija de Paula & Chico Togni Remix chair, 100cm x 55cm x 70cm. Really. solid textile blue jeans boards, acoustic textile felt, and Revive. recycled polyester (PET) produced by Kvadrat Textiles. The design is a re-read of Lucas Maassen’s re-read of Enzo Mari ’s open source Autoprogettazione Manual, from 1974. Poster, 130cm x 110cm. Acrylic on collected packaging consumed in Denmark, adhesive and glue. Maltfabrikken, Ebeltoft - Denmark
COLLECTIVE GOO, 2019 Kadija de Paula & Chico Togni cooking and printing workshop for/with students from the Danish Talent Academy at the Huset for Kunst og Design, Hosltebro - Denmark
DER RECHTE AUSGANG DES BUNDES SCHWARZEN HUHNS und SCHWIEGERMUTTERZUNGEN, 2019 Chico Togni & Kadija de Paula acrylic on collected adhesive papers 33cm x 53cm found paper and stones on Eternit asbestos vase and NEU DROGERRIE produkt katalog „Wir und die Stadt, die Stadt und wir.“ KKA Werkpräsentation at Bundeskanzleramt, Vienna - Austria
NEU DROGERIE, 2019 Chico Togni & Kadija de Paula with presentation by Sladjana Šimrak and special participation of Elisabeth Lehner acrylic on collected paper 1 m x 10 m sign, vitrine and interior containing a variety of products made with found resources Kulturdrogerie, Vienna - Austria https://kulturdrogerie.org/de/projekt/neu-drogerie
CARDBOARD KOFTA, 2019 Kadija de Paula & Chico Togni cardboard, glue, svinekød fedt, and fire on shopping cart Eat the World Street Food Festival, Ny Maltfabrikken, Ebeltoft - Denmark
In 1704 George Psalmanazar, published An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa. The name Formosa (福爾摩沙) dates from 1542, when Portuguese sailors sighted an uncharted island and noted it on their maps as Ilha Formosa (“beautiful island”). Despite claiming to be the first native of Formosa to visit Europe, Psalmanazar was in fact French and the “facts” contained in his book were an amalgam of other travel reports, especially influenced by accounts of the Aztec and Inca civilisations in the New World, and by embellished descriptions of Japan. In this fake ethnography he describes the Formosan breakfast: “First they smoke a Pipe of Tobacco, then they drink Bohea, Green or Sage Tea; afterwards they cut off the Head of a Viper, and suck the Blood out of the Body.” In 1557, Hans Staden a German explorer who voyaged to South America was captured by the Tupinambá people of Brazil. He managed to survive and return safe to Europe. In his widely read account describing his travel and captivity, he claimed that the native people that held him captive practiced anthropophagy as ritual were they would acquire the prisoner’s skills, strength and virility. In the 1920s, the Brazilian poet Oswald de Andrade and the painter Tarsila do Amaral founded the anthropophagic movement with the Manifesto Antropofágico. The “Manifesto” has often been interpreted as an essay in which the main argument proposes that Brazil’s history of “cannibalizing” other cultures is its greatest strength, while playing on the modernists’ primitivist interest in cannibalism as an alleged tribal rite. This printed formosan breakfast proposes that the words do not just stay out of the mouth. That we bring into the body the message of change we want to see in the world by nourishing our bodies with what is needed to transform history and power relations. Eat these words!
美麗的早餐 , CAFÉ DA MANHÃ FORMOSO, 2019 Kadija de Paula beetroot ink on tapioca crepe, variable dimensions Recipe About Art, Bamboo Curtain Studios, Taipei - Taiwan
AÇÃO PRIVADA EM FAVOR DO MUNDO CULTURAL, 2019 Chico Togni & Kadija de Paula acrylic on collected paper, stickers and packaging consumed in Vienna, NYC, Warsaw, Rio de Janeiro and Paris Galerie Houg, Paris - France
counter, canopy, terrace, po
BAR, 2019 Chico Togni & Kadija de Paula
osters, ping-pong table, menu formule et plus CitĂŠ International des Arts, Paris - France
RIEN NE SE PERD, RIEN NE SE CRÉE, 2018 Kadija de Paula & Chico Togni tent, bar, furniture, sign, posters and collective meals made with exceedent food and materials from the festival FOOD CULTURE DAYS 2018, la Grenette, Vevey - Switzerland
VISIT SCHLIEREN, 2018 Kadija de Paula & Chico Togni acrylic on collected packaging consumed in Zurich, adhesive and glue, 290cm x 450cm AZB Gastatelier, Zürich - Switzerland
KOMBIROSKA, 2018 Chico Togni & Kadija de Paula cardboard, wood, electric stoves, other found materials and menu, prepared with found food, 160 cm x 160 cm x 250cm AZB Skulpture Platz, Zürich - Switzerland
MANHATTAN BITCH, 2018 Chico Togni & Kadija de Paula acrylic, adhesive and glue, on collected packaging consumed in NYC, 124,5cm x 78,5cm HO Studios, Brooklyn, NYC
NICOLE: SOFA MADE TO MATCH PAINTING ON THE WALL, 2018 Chico Togni & Kadija de Paula acrylic, cardboard and wood, 178cm x 94cm x 94cm HO Studios, Brooklyn, NYC
TIME IS NOT ON YOUR SIDE, 2017 Kadija de Paula & Chico Togni installation view, various materials and variable dimensions „WELT KOMPAKT?“ Q21 frei_raum MuseumsQuartier, Vienna - Austria
CENTENÁRIO DA ERRADICAÇÃO DE LOS PERROS Y GATOS DE LAS GRANDES CIUDADES, 2017 Chico Togni & Kadija de Paula cardboard lamb and participatory performative BBQ on arena built with various found materials „du oder ich? collective soul. ethik des miteinanders“ public art project Melk - Austria
CENTENÁRIO DA ERRADICAÇÃO DE LOS PERROS Y GATOS DE LAS GRANDES CIUDADES, 2017 Kadija de Paula & Chico Togni arena built with various found material „du oder ich? collective soul. ethik des miteinanders“ public art project Melk - Austria
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HUMÊDO BAR, 2016 Chico Togni & Kadija de Paula in partnership with Wallace Masuko and Carolina Wan kitchen, sauna, cashier, pool, shower and bar 1524 Barão do Bananal St., São Paulo - Brazil https://vimeo.com/218016315
DO YOU ALSO WANT TO LEAVE THIS LIFE WITHOUT SENSE?, (ROCK, WATER TOWER, 3 SHOWERS, 4 BLEACHERS), 2016 Chico Togni, Antônio Ewbank and Edu Marin Kessedjian Cardboard, wood, glue, paint - approx. 60m x 15m MuBE - BRAZILIAN MUSEUM OF SCULPTURE, São Paulo - Brazil
TRANSBURGER, 2016 Environmental sculpture and performative assemblage Kadija de Paula, Jonas Van, Joelson Bugila, and Jorge Menna Barreto Paquetรก Experimenta, Xanadona at A Gentil Carioca, and Sandwich Generation at Capacete, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
WATCHOUT FERNANDO!, 2012 Chico Togni Cardboard, cardboard paste, wood, metal, amplifier, fridges, fryer etc. - 2.5m x 3m x 5m 340 Sales guerra st., São Paulo - Brazil