letters to a place

2018 [September 14th – October 25th]

BDMG Cultural Art Gallery , BDMG Cultural – Belo Horizonte, MG – Brazil

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BDMG Exhibitions Award

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How to deal with empty, unknown or fragmented spaces?

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How to inhabit and build a place from these voids?  

Is the possibility of recomposing space, based on fragments, also the possibility of perceiving emptiness and absence as places of construction?

A place of construction or the construction of a place: through different paths one can find, in a complex of images, a space proper to uncertainty, indeterminacy and suspension of reason.

LETTERS FOR A PLACE brings together different works that are constructed and exhaustively related to questions surrounding the creation of a place.

The two paths suggested in the exhibition space aim to open up these questions, indicating a myriad of rotations and connections that can be established based on the spectator's active body disposition and gaze.

The works are related to the choice and use of materials, in their technical and plastic characteristics. They also permeate through the multiple readings and the different understandings that maps offer to the gaze and the possibilities of its reconstruction and re-signification. Likewise, the borders drawn on maps, textual fragments and cartographic and topographical instructions, mirror each other  in oil, charcoal and pigment stains and in the changes in the physical state of paraffin – when melting, spreading and hardening.

LETTERS TO A PLACE is an invitation to navigate and traverse fleeting, immaterial itineraries. An invitation to wander through a place proper to the intercurrences of desire, where perception and elaboration can take place in the spaces of exchange between works, an edification that emerges from the plot created in the set of propositions and installations present.