Transient

  • 2003
  • Galeria Candido Portinari, UERJ, Rio de Janeiro

The space, crisscrossed in diagonal clusters, seems to compel, absorb, drag the gaze. And in this moment when one is almost dragged inside the gallery, as if moved by a kind of magnetic field, it seems necessary, in each step one takes, to resort to the demand to maintain one’s balance – in view of such unstable and not infrequently hostile surroundings –, while searching for a comfortable position. Each cubicle meter roamed is, in a way, the discovery of a new place in the world, in the presence of this faceting that seems to invert the cube to which one is accustomed to. But since it is also a place where one is not alone (that is, the prophet, the genius, and the demiurge are forbidden here), in its “sociability”, it preserves the possibility of understanding it’s construction as a consciousness of the world, the determination of a place where the “I” and “things” are the result of a reciprocate positivity, passing from the initial barrenness to the feasible possibility of an informed relation. A significant undertaking, since it is executed with the required immediacy, without conceding to an anxious urgency.