![Cildo Meireles, Desvio para o vermelho I: Impregnação, 1967-84. Acervo de arte contemporânea Inhotim](https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2007061.jpg.webp 1920w, https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2007061-300x169.jpg.webp 300w, https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2007061-1024x576.jpg.webp 1024w, https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2007061-768x432.jpg.webp 768w, https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2007061-1536x864.jpg.webp 1536w)
The caption of Desvio para o vermelho (1967-1984) presents two dates: the year the project was conceived (1967), and the year it was first assembled at the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (1984); at Inhotim, it is permanently exhibited since 2006. The title of the work by Cildo Meireles makes reference to the physics phenomenon known as redshift, a particular instance of the relativistic Doppler effect that indicates the red color as the wavelength of light an observer perceives when celestial bodies grow apart.
![Obra Desvio para o vermelho II: Entorno, 1967-84, de Cildo Meireles. Acervo de arte contemporânea Inhotim](https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2007021-2-1.jpg.webp 1920w, https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2007021-2-1-300x300.jpg.webp 300w, https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2007021-2-1-1024x1024.jpg.webp 1024w, https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2007021-2-1-150x150.jpg.webp 150w, https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2007021-2-1-768x768.jpg.webp 768w, https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2007021-2-1-1536x1536.jpg.webp 1536w)
![Obra Desvio para o vermelho III, 1967-84, de Cildo Meireles. Acervo de arte contemporânea Inhotim](https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20070214_Cildo_Meireles_Desvio_vermelho_Pedro_Motta003_1-1.jpg.webp 1920w, https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20070214_Cildo_Meireles_Desvio_vermelho_Pedro_Motta003_1-1-300x300.jpg.webp 300w, https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20070214_Cildo_Meireles_Desvio_vermelho_Pedro_Motta003_1-1-1024x1024.jpg.webp 1024w, https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20070214_Cildo_Meireles_Desvio_vermelho_Pedro_Motta003_1-1-150x150.jpg.webp 150w, https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20070214_Cildo_Meireles_Desvio_vermelho_Pedro_Motta003_1-1-768x768.jpg.webp 768w, https://www.inhotim.org.br/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/20070214_Cildo_Meireles_Desvio_vermelho_Pedro_Motta003_1-1-1536x1536.jpg.webp 1536w)
Split in three articulated spaces, the first of them (Impregnação/Impregnation) gathers an exhaustive collection of furniture, objects, and artworks in shades of red, duly organized in a room. The monochromatic saturation of the first environment contrasts with the dusk of the second (Entorno/Surroundings), where one can observe a small bottle and its spilling red liquid that produces a major stain on the space. Following the path of the liquid leads us to a totally dark room (Desvio/Deviation), where we are guided by the sound of flowing water. The darkness is only interrupted by a displaced sink, from where flows the red water that creates the soundscape.