The City Of São Paulo Dances To The Tune Of Washed Out Neon

Adults dance (or try to), children dance, animals dance, even robots can dance. But have you ever seen a dancing city? Probably not unless it’s very early in the morning and you’ve been up all night.

Brazilan artist Brüno Melo has created a series of GIFs called Dancing City, which with flashing washed-out colors and broken lines deconstruct the buildings that constantly crop up in the cityscape of modern day São Paulo—turning them into an architectural Saturday Night Fever.

It’s a way for the artist to claim back his city and create something pleasing to the eye from the concrete structures and their ceaseless advancement.

Here’s Melo’s Google-translated statement about the project: 

Every day a new building springs from the floor of the state capital. Expensive, inexpensive, large or small, every day I see new cement pieces trying to play our polluted sky.

The Dancing City consists in deconstructing these constructions. After all, if the large contractors can build in the capital, I can deconstruct.

@stewart23rd